Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan must have more babies!" the baron cried. "It is a deplorable fact that young women of today are practicing birth control in the interests of beauty. They claim children spoil their beauty. This philosophy is a tragic mistake. Japan must have more babies...
...sixteenth century but most of them are in ink and are religious in subject. Such for instance is the strange "Pieta" by Hans Leu. Secular and strikingly handsome is the large portrait of Susanna of Bavaria, in crayon on a green ground, by Durer. In sharp contrast is the tragic portrait of a leper, by Holbein...
...shining brow." Its history is one of tragic irony. Its character is one of extraordinary repose. It is the home of Frank Lloyd Wright, the greatest architect of the 20th Century...
...never run a factory. The gist of her argument is that businessmen's great failure has been their inability to develop a goal that would dignify their ceaseless struggles. Men of calculation, wielding great power, performing gigantic feats of organization and administration, their history should be dramatic, colorful, tragic. And yet it has remained niggardly and dull, its tragedies without elevation, its achievements unsung. Poets have avoided its stories and businessmen themselves have not wanted to hear them. The reason, Miriam Beard believes, is that heroes in other fields have served some ideal larger than themselves, even if they...
...pair of garrulous, short-tempered kind-hearted fishwives, the latter singing "Rule Brittania" throughout the uprising. All these people and several others comprise an intensely interesting gallery of figures, but the play suffers, and compares unfavorably with "June and the Paycock," through having no character of great tragic proportions...