Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that she cannot come, cannot face it. The little boy is heartbroken, recovers in time to meet his stepfather, who comes instead, in a well-meaning but highly nervous condition. At his first marvelous sight of Paris at night, the little boy forgets his dreamed-for mother and his tragic...
...good judgment of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate has probably saved this country from a most tragic mistake. The so-called neutrality bill so enthusiastically urged by many good but mistaken people, and by some who are neither good nor mistaken, would much more likely have involved us in war than kept...
...stoic philosophy of life, that of the British man of action." This generalization is so incomplete as to be seriously misleading. Captain MacWhirr may be stoical but he scarcely represents an Anglo-Saxon ideal. And from the expostulations of Babalatchi in "An Outcast of the Islands" to the tragic portrait of Charles Could, the typical British man of action, in "Nostromo," Conrad mercilessly exposed that Anglo-Saxon habit of sentimentalizing one's desires, best known as the doctrine of "the white man's burden," which has built the Empire. No, Kipling ideals cannot be found in the work of Conrad...
...Indeed, to wax poetic", he continued: "'Tis (three score) years since Carroll's art, With topsy-turvy magic, Sent Alice wondering through a part Half-comic and half tragic...
Professor Janko Lavrin of University College, Nottingham, provides an informative introduction, though he makes no effort "ad captandum vulgus" by mentioning what is likely to win the vast majority of readers: Solovyev's criticism of "Hamlet", in which is demonstrated (as indispensable to the tragic venture of the play) the capital importance of Hamlet's belief in blood-vengeance, despite his Christian faith, and of his "general incapacity to put into execution any law." This is a most ingenious criticism of Shakespere, and it will serve to remind one that Russians have been unorthodox critics from the beginning -- a fact...