Word: pathos
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...singular meaning praise or glory, it has been misconstrued so often as a plural that, by a process lexicographers call back-formation, it has spawned a synthetic singular. Sure enough, here it is with its own entry in RHD-II: kudo. What next? Will a single instance of pathos be called a patho...
Unfortunately, Sarah's path to an Olympics gold medal is strewn with Freudian booby traps. Aunt Velvet, it seems, has still not recovered from a miscarriage she suffered after being thrown by Pie years earlier. John has not only problems at the typewriter but a patho logical fear of marriage. Both these characters discuss their neuroses at great length, often in voice-over narration that accompanies Forbes' extensive travelogue footage of British scenic vistas. Young Sarah, meanwhile, finds herself unable to make friends among her peers. In one gratuitously jarring incident, a cruel class mate presents her with...
...Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Faculty of Medicine, has accepted the experimental program of independent study presented last month by a group of second-year medical students. The experiment will allow selected students to determine their own study in the patho-physiology course that occupies 75 per cent of the second-year students' second semester...
...interview last night, Dr. David G. Freiman, head of the patho-physiology course, acknowledged that Ebert told the students who had proposed the program he was willing to try the experiment next semester. However, Ebert was unavailable for comment...
Rather than attend the usual series of lectures in patho-physiology, the large integrated study of disease processes, the students will engage in independent study techniques of directed reading and discussion, as well as the usual labs and demonstrations. The importance of the program is that the students will determine their own course of study, as they had requested...