Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eventually appealed for divorce proceedings, that he has bitterly oppressed his wife by his selfish conduct. Then Baxter, the only logical character in the whole cast, makes the only illogical move of his performance when he humbly bows to his vacillating wife, and all live happily ever after. Tragic, we should say, tragic especially when the writer of the script himself deserts the poor here...
...desolate that it fills our hearts with an utterly inexpressible tumult of afflicting and conflicting feelings and emotions. . . . You have been robbed and despoiled of all things. You have been hunted and set upon to death in cities and villages, in dwellings of men and on mountain tops. . . . These tragic happenings in Spain speak to Europe and the whole world and proclaim once more to what extent the very foundations of all order, of all culture, of all civilization, are being menaced. This menace, it must be added, is all the more serious, more persistent, more active, by reason...
...Both tragic and ludicrous were the cases outlined by the survey: Case 49,021: An investigator called on a woman in Henry Street, wanted to find out why her husband had been absent from his job for three days. "Absent-absent-these last three clays?" stammered the woman. "But-but-my husband died last year." Case 33: The worker was convicted of robbery last year, sentenced to from two to ten years in the Connecticut State Prison. Concluded the interviewer: "In-asmuch as this worker will be unable to work in the future, he should be separated from the payroll...
...manner neither novelists nor historians supply. They may question whether ordinary private life during that period was as confused and chaotic as Dos Passos represents it, whether he has not overshot his mark in bringing so many of his characters to violent ends, so many of their hopes to tragic frustrations. But they can admire without reservation his narrative style, bare but not bleak, naturalistic but not dull, and his cunning blend of the literary and the colloquial. Dos Passos believes that a writer's modest job is to be an "architect of history." He never talks about creation...
...insane asylums. But gradually John collected a motley little band of superior children, took them off to an uncharted Pacific island to found a real civilization. Before they could do much for the rest of the world their hiding place was discovered, and the colony came to a tragic...