Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comic talents of George Bernard Shaw were combined with the keen tragic sense of John Galsworthy, the easy virtuosity of Pinero and the poetic imagination of Barrie."?(That caustic 100 percenter) H. L. Mencken...
Strange wastrel days. . . . tragic, cruel days when he struggled with a life that was bitter...
...current issue of the Nation Jo Swerling rehearses the story of the rise of that sad phenomenon of modern degeneracy, the tabloid newspaper. His account bristles with satiric humor, but under it all runs a tragic under-current, --the bitter contempt and resentment of old-time newspaperman toward this present day state of depravity into which his profession has fallen...
...increase with their distance from normal life. The Professor's House has been declared "unsubstantial" beside One of Ours and A Lost Lady. Perhaps, but as a metaphor for that imperceptible reversal of adolescence that comes over all men, which they call middle-age and which is tragic or not, according as their lives have been spent with or without spirit, it is crystal clear, thoroughly native, unforgettable...
...must be immediately admitted that such a sterling opinion was not passed upon it by the majority of the critics. It was called "lei- surely," "diffuse," and "over-decorated." These critics evidently had some subconscious resentment of its lack of sex-appeal, of its subtly pulled punches, of its tragic ending. They seemed to miss the brilliant economy, the unfailing feeling for composition, the somewhat abstract treatment of a legendary story. Probably they are movie critics be- cause they reflect tastes of the movie public. This public will probably reject Siegfried; but this rejection slip in no way implies lack...