Word: poignant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is no reason to despise the pathetic as opposed to the terrible- Some of the most poignant moments in all drama have been tearful. One such is the last scene of the Cherry Orchard, as presented by the Moscow Players. But there is a definite line separating the Shakespearean and Greek tragedies from the modern tragedy of defeat...
...objects of so much investigation would make an effort to actively record our sensations at various stages of the procedure, we may possibly spare tome wear and tear on future specimens. In any event no Senior should neglect this opportunity to write, for the common welfare, his brief but poignant treatise on "How I Would Run the College...
...areas from Rheims along the Chemin des Dames, which my associate visited later, were in much the condition in which the war left them. These areas have been written about so often that any further description could not add anything of value. The picture itself brought home a most poignant realization of the indomitable courage and gallantry with which France upheld our common cause, and of the awful sacrifices that she made in the struggle of our sort of civilization against one quite alien to our ideals...
...artificial bunkers and traps which guard the course to Cambridge. If we are willing to temper the wind to the handicapped lamb, let us by all means knock down a few bars and allow the relieving breeze to guide him gently to us; if not, why indulge in poignant grief at our own exclusiveness? Let us be honest with ourselves and others--let us retain our artificial barriers and glory in the fact that we have them in order to eliminate the lazy and inefficient, or let us remove them if we wish to compete on equal terms with...
...CRIMSON has already pointed out why it believes the Republican party best qualified to perform the service of leadership during the next four years; perhaps a more poignant way of impressing this point of view is to consider the question from the opposite side. In other words, would the country be better off under four more years of Democratic control...