Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...larger part of the nineteenth century; or from the French belief in the superiority of France in all matters of higher civilization; or even from the American assumption that the United States is the foremost standard-bearer of international justice and righteousness. They are an impressive instance of that tragic national self-overestimation which seems to be inseparable from periods of striking national ascendency, both quickening and endangering this ascendency itself...
...answer to Professor Eduard Meyer's letter entitled "The Spirit of Harvard," which is printed in the last issue of the Alumni Bulletin probably expresses the conviction of all Harvard men that "the bonds of intellectual co-operation between nations will not prove to have been severed when this tragic struggle comes to an end." Perhaps no institutions of learning in the world can claim such cosmopolitan origins and affiliations as American universities, and of these none comes into closer relations with scholars of all nations than does Harvard...
Professor A. S. Johnson, of Cornell University, speaking in the Union last evening on the economic aspects of the war, declared that the most tragic thing of the European struggle is the fact that it was nearly avoided. Now we will see a purification and readjustment, slow to be sure by reason of an inevitable consequence of ill faith and suspicion, but tending ultimately to completer harmony than has existed in Europe for many years. The effects of the war, he said, are unlike those of any previous struggle in that it has affected not special classes of humanity...
...Brahms, "Tragic Overture," op. 81; Liszt, Symphonic Poem no 3, "The Preludes"; Wagner, Overture to "The Flying Dutchman...
...Biggers's play is a comedy, but there is in it more than a little of the poignant, the near-tragic, Marie Gilmore, a leading lady, is in love with Billy Kinsman, the butterfly son of a self-made millionaire who of late has been "doing society" with his pompous wife. It becomes the duty of the actress to show this family their foibles, to tear the masks from their faces, to discover them unto themselves as genuinely human beings. This task takes her through the better part of four acts, sees her at one point a comedy character...