Word: patheticism
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Most pathetic victims are the children. Of the 70,000 homeless children in South Korea, 10,000 are in Pusan. Some are mere toddlers, squatting numbly in the gutters, devoured by flies by day, by rats at night. The older children get along by stealing, begging, pimping, shining shoes. Most...
Day after his return, Talal mounted a brown charger and rode into downtown Amman, among his people. They swarmed around, cheering him, until the police had to hold back the crowds. Illness had only increased the popularity of Jordan's pathetic King, who would probably never rule his people...
A parade of Prohibition witnesses took up the cudgels against the Demon Rum. They charged that brewers have taken over TV with their "beercasting" because "they need a new crop of drinkers to replace chronic alcoholics." The witnesses also objected that TV advertising plays up the creamy frothiness of beer...
The clear superiority of a couple of the House write-ups and the really interesting way in which a few of the minor organizations are presented point up the general inadequacy of the rest. The sports section is especially unstimulating; the minor sports articles read like schedules of wins and...
Some of the best stories take a pathetic turn. In A Girl Called Peter, a farm girl discovers herself for the awkward thing she is. No More The Nightingales tells of the seduction of a rich woman by a confident farm hand who treats her "as if she were a...