Word: patheticism
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Limelight (Charles Chaplin; United Artists), Chaplin's first film in five years, is a sad disappointment. Intended as a tragicomedy, if not a tearjerker, it is a two-thirds bore that comes to life in the last half-hour or so, when the old-master clown stops trying to...
Dickens is dead-and who cares? Dickens was an old-fashioned sentimentalist who roared with laughter at his own comic caricatures and wept buckets over his pathetic children and heroines whiter (and frailer) than the driven snow. But Dickens had gusto. So did Mark Twain; so did Kipling; so did...
Last spring, as in the past, University Hall decreed the death of further rioting at the University. Perhaps the requiem to John B. G. Rinehart will be a quiet one, as is fitting, but the myth of the pathetic student calling to himself, incorrect as it is, will probably endure...
Soapy's old Princeton buddy Stan Backus is a solid Republican, but last week he voiced a kind of pathetic bipartisan concern about the prodigy. "Today, when the class of '33 gets together, we talk about Soap," said Backus. "He's the guy who has done the...
In the dressing room were 100 suits, 50 canes, 75 pairs of binoculars and 1,050 ties, some with the initial "F" five inches high. Most pathetic item of all: a snapshot of Farouk as a boy, slim and handsome.