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...Serbs have other means to talk themselves into an attitude of aggrieved innocence. The Belgrade television stations endlessly show atrocity scenes, dramas displaying Serbs as victims, with grinning Muslim devils holding the severed heads of Serbs. The truly accomplished ethnic self-pitier projects all around him as a siege of malevolent conspiracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Moral Mystery: Serbian Self-Pity | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

...dare speak to her and dismissed his screen heroism as fakery until he thrillingly discovered that it, like all art, came from deep within. The barren Broadway musical of MY FAVORITE YEAR, which opened last week, turns O'Toole's holy hellion into a soulless self-pitier (a deft if charmless Tim Curry) and wrongly presumes that the film's appeal was its setting amid a '50s TV variety show -- a format joylessly re-created. For the movie's fans, this is a sad waste; for others, a crashing bore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Dec. 21, 1992 | 12/21/1992 | See Source »

...Robert Morse brings back to life the author, wit, bon vivant, self-pitier and true enchanter that was Truman Capote in this Tony-winning one-man performance, now on national tour, in Los Angeles through March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Feb. 11, 1991 | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

...neither is emptiness different from me; indeed, emptiness is me," says one of Kerouac's Dharma Bums. The big flirtation between the beatniks and Zen and other forms of Eastern passivism, as Fitch sees it, is a desire to be emptied of self. But it is the self-pitier who truly commands stage center in modern drama, fiction and even life. In a narrow and somewhat unfairly argued attack on Pasternak, Fitch claims that Doctor Zhivago is a kind of beat modern Hamlet who "is born in pathos, lives in pathos, peters out in pathos-the artist-anarchist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Craven Idol | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

...Conley Pitcher and outfield; J. A. Brewster, pitier and lb; W. D. Preston, 2b; E. W. Ryson, outfield; F. W. Gaimell, lb; A. F. Cornish, c and 1b; P. W. Whittemore 3b; C. S. French, outfield; S. K. Fenollsa, 3b; A. T. Stevenson, Jr., p or 1b; B. Worman, infield; J. C. D. Hitch, c; E. Carroll, s s and outfield; H. H. Richardson, 1b and field; C. H. Mills, p ad s s; D. D. Miller, lf; J. L. Fiske, 2b R. D. Wrenn, 2b and field; Spencer lidy, c and 1b; C. Dreyfus, 2b; H. E. Witting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshen Nine. | 1/7/1892 | See Source »

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