Word: piteously
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...Miller-Monroe marriage takes up most of the play's second half. It is an ugly and piteous picture; many persons will doubtless find it embarrassing, disgusting, and tasteless. Yet it is unsparingly honest. Miller does absolve himself of direct responsibility for La Monroe's death, but he makes no attempt to deny that he shares some of the guilt for the union's collapse. Over and above their validity as components in a work of art, the Monroe episodes constitute a precious document in the history of psychology; they provide the explanation by one knowledgeable, sensitive, and articulate observer...
...superimposed encumbrances, she gives an astonishingly modulated performance based on a remarkable gift for subtle timing and inflection. I cannot imagine another player's surpassing this feat, which is destined to be a classic. Miss White is most ably supported by Edward Finnegan's Willie; indeed Finnegan is more piteous than was John Becher in the original production...
...dumfounded. It was he who was used to banging tables and making peremptory refusals. Taking a different tack, he accurately said that he was as much at fault as Menon and vaguely threatened to resign. Always before, such a threat had been sufficient to make the opposition crumble with piteous cries of 'Tanditji, don't leave us alone!" This time, one of the leaders said: "If you continue to follow Menon's policies, we are prepared to contemplate that possibility." Nehru was beaten and Menon thrown out of the Cabinet. Joining him in his exit was Menon...
When Andersen's name popped up in the Estes investigation, many of his old colleagues cut him cold, bringing forth a piteous Andersen speech on the House floor: "Some of you gentlemen who have been shying off, come and say hello to H. Carl Andersen, come shake my hand." From home came rumbles of Republican discontent, and Andersen announced that he would run for re-election as an independent. Then, fearing the loss of his party seniority in the House, he changed his mind, entered the Republican primary. But the Minnesota G.O.P. had already endorsed a freshman state legislator...
...hesitate to take issue with so eminent a Shakespearean as Mark Van Doren, but his statement that the Duke of York "is the one clearly comic personage" in the play is woefully to misread the role. York is not comic; he is piteous. At any rate Patrick Hines brings to York not an interpretation, but a dozen interpretations. I have not the haziest idea what sort of codger Hines takes York to be. And someone should inform Hines that, in Shakespeare, the word 'issue' is not a sneeze...