Word: patheticism
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This first act establishes the setting of the play, but without logical order. The dialogue is choppy, because each character blurts out a new fact rather than building on a previous one. Holm also bypasses a dramatic opportunity when he does not take full advantage of a storm in order...
Although Eva LeGallienne has the role of Mrs. Elder, the farm woman, she does not come up to her usual standards. Only her position is pathetic, not her acting. She does not vary the pace of her speaking enough; and consequently, her several poetic outbursts lose their effect. Still, her...
In spite of the approaching season of holiday cheer, television's week began like a vast coast-to-coast autopsy. March of Medicine performed a gory operation on a man's heart artery in front of the TV cameras. Medic, sounding less and less like a Dragnet-in...
That anchor and pride of Republicanism, the great and prosperous state of Pennsylvania, went Democratic-solidly, surprisingly, and in a way that seemed to shatter the pathetic remnants of its once proud and efficient state G.O.P. organization.
In a pathetic little ceremony inside Hanoi one evening last week, the French Tricolor was hauled down and handed to a silently weeping colonel. Next day, in well-ordered triumph the first of 30,000 helmeted, green-clad troops of the Communist Viet Minh rolled into the city in Russian...