Word: patheticism
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1) Proctors should say to themselves every five minutes "I am not now, nor was I ever, a representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation." By doing this, they might be able to eliminate the stealthy creep and the awful eye that characterize so many Harvard examination rooms. A student...
When the U.N. Assembly opened its sessions in Paris last September, young Garry Davis, onetime Broadway gadabout, wartime bomber pilot and son of Society Bandleader Meyer Davis, was an eccentric freak who camped on the U.N.'s doorstep, heckled its deliberations. A self-declared citizen of the world who...
Thus far, audiences have shown one remarkable reaction. Many have tittered at times, or laughed out loud at the grotesquely pathetic antics of the mad. This laughter is probably no more than a release from nervous strain. In a sense, occasional nervous laughter at The Snake Pit is a measure...
The Director. Producer-Director Litvak, a strong believer in psychoanalysis, tells his story with great simplicity and sympathy. There are times when the simplicity verges on the obvious. But his best scenes are superb. The finest, based mostly on Litvak's observations in the asylums he visited, is laid...
The detective scoffs at the old society-is-to-blame alibi by reminding the thug that they both started with exactly the same disadvantages. Before the picture is over, the criminal has proved that law-breaking is the least of the things which put him outside the pale. Without ever...