Word: patheticism
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How the little fugitive gets straight with society at last seems a pretty long story (75 minutes), but one that is always clearly and effectively told. In their first film, Writers-Directors-Producers Ray Ashley, Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin have shown a high type of that negative good taste...
Visitors can walk through stately halls and a network of chapels and oracle rooms, still paved with mosaics, where worshipers asked the advice of the goddess. The temple must have been, also, rather like a pagan Lourdes, where pilgrims prayed for relief from bodily ailments. The many shops that cluster...
More interesting were the works of Russia's pre-revolutionary artists. Not so concerned with depicting Utopia, they showed pathetic trains of cold-numbed peasants crossing the steppes on sleighs, a stooped little stoker with immense gnarled hands, weary Volga boatmen, a slushy country road stretching across endless plains...
Then Dealer Ambroise Vollard began promoting him and Rouault's reputation grew. His art was growing even faster; it lost the taint of caricature and took on the glow of compassion. Religious paintings became his most important work. At first, pure torment was what they conveyed. Then slowly Rouault...
Governments Forget. Months went by before real help came. The embattled Greek government sent relief money. Greek-Americans who came from the area sent $20,000 for a new school; the Near East Foundation set up a feeding station for the 300 young children. Eventually, Marshall Plan money came to...