Word: pyrrhic
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Konrad Adenauer's decision to resign the German Chancellorship "may have been a Pyrrhic victory for Dr. Ludwig Erhard," Carl J. Friedrich, Eaton Profesor of the Science of Government, said Wednesday...
Juno (book by Joseph Stein, music and lyrics by Marc Blitzstein, dances by Agnes de Mille) is a Pyrrhic victory of Broadway talent over an Irish genius. This musical version of Sean O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock paradoxically mutes O'Casey's inner music with song, fetters his soaring spirit with dance, and deflects the lyric flow of his dialogue into prosy pools of talk...
...huge boulder to the top of a hill, only to see it roll down again, to the end of time. But from this recognition Camus drew his own peculiar sustenance: "Crushing truths perish by being acknowledged," i.e., knowledge of one's absurd fate is a kind of Pyrrhic victory over absurdity...
Incest with her father, however, has left Cressida with a guilty conscience and she feels unworthy of Troilus, until he proves his love in bed. Love's victory is Pyrrhic, however, and Cressida soon succumbs to a Prince of Greece, who can provide security and a house in Connecticut. The Greek is nevertheless the tool of Mars, who is the real villain, and provides the climax, which is tragic for Ashton and perhaps slightly comic for the audience...
...Silberstein does succeed in his goal-electing six directors to the eleven-man Fairbanks, Morse board-his victory might yet be Pyrrhic. Penn-Texas may control Fairbanks, Morse, but since Illinois law requires a two-thirds vote of shares for corporate merger, the Morse family holdings are enough to block any real union between the two companies. Moreover, if F-M stock drops after Silberstein wins-and Morse himself says it is much too high-the Morse-financed Landa committee may yet put Silberstein in hot water at Penn-Texas' own meeting in May by confronting him with some...