Word: losses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beckett's total-loss view of life is as dense and dark as a black hole. Miraculously, his writing provides illumination. He told one of the directors of Godot that "nothing is more grotesque than the tragic," and all of his works prove it. Beckett's clowns and cripples suffer and rant in a world as comic as it is hopeless, comic because it is hopeless. Easy cynics, in literature and life, are a dime a dozen. Bair's biography shows how rigorously and painfully Beckett earned his vision, and with what heroism he prevailed over...
...fire also singed a large rug and blackened a pair of skis. But the most immediate problem, said Burns, was the loss of the Ec 10 notes; the exam is this afternoon...
...assembly must be pushed to demand for itself as large a role as possible within the University, mobilizing students within departments and on committees to defend their local interests. If the students let the assembly become a government majors' debating society, it is both their own fault and loss...
Shaw came back from his loss to Army with a convincing 6-2, 6-0 win over Keith Usisker. Horn, at number five, was the only Crimson to lose a set, dropping the first stanza 5-7 before coming back...
Local newspapers bewailed the loss. Then City Representative Joseph LaSala wrote the Philadelphia Inquirer to confess, "I am the ogre who made the decision not to spend $45,000 on this delightful piece of sculpture...