Word: patheticism
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Beaver's Bite. The British critics' chief target is the Independent Television Authority's commercial Channel 9, which is so U.S.-infected as to make BBC seem "a stern, inflexible nurse of home-grown talent." Johnnie Ray turned up as the star performer of Easter Sunday'...
"The proliferation of the sects," he writes in the current issue, "[is a] judgment upon us all. But accepting the judgment has never necessarily entailed embracing the instrument of judgment." Psychiana, a mail-order course in positive thinking, showed how "pathetic an expedient" it was when it collapsed completely upon...
These circumstances, and the great grey circumstance of Belfast itself, where the Catholic Irish tread with resentful circumspection amid the Protestant majority, compose the theater for Dev's tragedy. He is more vulnerable to scandal than an English princess when Cuff's young niece arrives from Dublin. Soon...
For a moment, at a Greenwich Village brawl. Chayefsky almost dares to face the moment of truth. Hero Charlie is all set to chuck his scruples and climb in the sack with a ludicrously pathetic little bohemienne. But then he realizes what a dope he is to be prowling the...
Lael Tucker pleads a moral cause: a kind of private euthanasia, her husband's "right to die as he wished to, when he chose." She knows that this claim is based on pride: several times during the last painful months, the Wertenbakers gaily toasted what they called their hubris...