Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...village for suspicion of witchcraft. One day a young artist, attracted by her beauty, followed her to the "light" and discovered its cause, moonlight reflected through a crystal cavern. This was reported to the villagers who removed the precious rock, and by this act brought about the girl's tragic...
When the republic of letters was a monarchy, the grand manner was reserved for such uncommon themes as the death of kings, paradise lost or the celestial city found. Mass education has changed all that. Prizefighters, prostitutes, plain people of all kinds are the modern tragic heroes, and modern authors write about them in Promethean language. Time was when farmers figured in literature only as comic oafs or sullen clodhoppers, but Now in November pipes a more stately pastoral. Written with a slightly self-conscious sonority, this story of a Missouri farm reads like a poeticized almanac with a tragic...
Narrator and tragic chorus of the story is Marget, one of the three daughters of an embittered farmer and his saintly wife. As children, the girls lead a lonely but far from hopeless life. As they grow up they begin to realize the desperateness of the family struggle for existence. When Grant comes to live with them and help work the farm, Marget and Kerrin fall in love with him. He has no eyes for anyone but Merle, who will not look in his direction. Disasters come thick & fast. A long drought nearly ruins the farm, Kerrin kills herself, Grant...
...industry will be unable to take care of the "surplus population," creating a mob of millions of destitute workers. According to Corey's charts and figures the increasingly unequal distribution of wealth, despite the claims of the boomtime-era bankers and statesmen, or the promises of Niraism, is tragic, but under the system unavoidable. In a chapter called "The Crisis of the American Dream," Author Corey writes glowingly of the early American Democracy before it was overtaken by modern capitalism. Originating in revolution, it was dedicated to the ideals of Liberty, Democracy, Education, Equality, Progress, Peace. Pointing...
...exhibit. In addition, each & every Columbia freshman will be required to make three phonograph records during the year, by which his speech defects may be corrected. These records will comprise an extempore recitation on a subject like "How I Spent the Summer," and the reading aloud of a simple, tragic tale which Professor Greet uses in his speech test...