Word: heartbreaking
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...profound shock to Shaw's comic genius and his optimism. Heartbreak House appeared to many as a confusion. The disillusion with the failures of the Labor government, in which the Webbs and many of his Fabian friends served, turned Shaw back to his own inherited responses. The old 18th Century taste for autocrats revived. So Mussolini was admired, Hitler was given a hand and Stalin was exalted. Their virtue was that they were practical. Shaw appeared to agree with the scientists that what succeeds is good and he had been careful, as a Marxist, to say that capitalism...
...decide whether to commit them piecemeal, or to build up in greater safety behind the Kum River and wait for the enemy to come south. MacArthur and Dean chose the former. It remained to be seen whether the time gained was worth the cost in casualties and heartbreak to the U.S. troops. Last week they took a severe beating. As this week began, the U.S. troops, with tanks and better artillery reaching them at last, showed signs of standing their ground...
...medical horror that sometimes bubbles over in such phrases as "The love in him wrung its hands in defeat." But more often its galloping, impassioned style exactly conveys the sight and smell of wards full of dying women, the outraged conservatism of doctors who bitterly resisted aseptic surgery, the heartbreak of seeing a lifesaving discovery rejected...
Honorable mentions in the undergraduate division of the Bowdoin prizes went to Foote, who wrote a second piece, on "Father Hopkins: A Ritualist in Poetry"; Michael Roemer '49 for "Heartbreak House": and Walter S. Frank '49 for "The Tragic Equation: A Study of Marlowe's 'Faustus' and Goethe's 'Faust...
...they learned only the barest details of the North Atlantic pact, tabloid readers learned a lot about life's triumphs, travail and heartbreak that readers of the Times and Herald Tribune (which chose to run Tenor Tagliavini's troubles on its music page) often missed in their news...