Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eagle-eyed Harvard men are always on the lookout for those little quips of incongruency that change the luminous into the ludicrous. Even when wrapped in the majesty of Wagner, the imp of the perverse breaks through and makes them laugh at the most tragic of the Leitmotive...
...duty to maintain peace, and that this duty should be fulfilled "by the use of our influence, short of becoming involved in the dispute itself." These words are innocuous enough in themselves, as were similar statements made early in the World War or at the time of the less-tragic but equally humiliating Manchurian crisis. They are merely vague, and lack of precision in foreign policy is always dangerous...
...life. Gloria and Eddie, rattling off interrupted reminiscences of childhood, wisecracking and communicating in scrambled, mocking cliches, understand one an-other so completely that, John O'Hara insinuates, only Eddie might have saved her. And this Eddie could not do. The high point of Butterfidd 8 is their tragic, humiliating, unsuccessful attempt to give their companionship an emotional substance, when Gloria realizes that she loves him. It is typical of John O'Hara's humor, as well as a sign of his understanding of his people, that in the depths of his pity and distress Eddie...
...plane was apparently intact when it first struck. Scars on the ground showed it hit three times before the final crash. After the first two bounces Collison seemed somehow to have gained 200 ft. of altitude, although the undercarriage was smashed and the engines lost, and failed by a tragic ten feet to clear the last hill which might have enabled him to make a "bellyskid" landing on the slope beyond...
...Glum and nostalgic, Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler, 73, observed: "Theft, assault, kidnapping, murder, follow each other with tragic frequency. These acts are all done by men and women who have been pupils in our schools and many of them pupils in our colleges as well. . . . It has become customary to abuse and sneer at the little red schoolhouse of two generations ago, but if that little red schoolhouse was presided over by a teacher of rich and warm personality with a genius for impressing himself upon the group of pupils of various ages and stages of advancement which...