Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every distiller knows, all Scotch whiskey is blended. So is Scots dialect. A blend not only of pungent Scots dialect and plain English but of symphony and satire, low comedy and drama that sometimes aspires to the tragic, Cloud Howe is a malty, fairly intoxicating brew. Author ''Lewis Grassic Gibbon" (J. Leslie Mitchell, British historian and archeologist) has already written one book about his heroine (Sunset Song), will write one more, but Cloud Howe stands sturdily enough alone...
Charges of sabotage in handling army planes have not been publicly proved and the airplane companies have caused investigations to be made to determine the source of such rumors, which may have been started as a smoke screen behind the tragic deaths of army flyers...
FROM the earliest plays of O'Neill there has been a recurrent struggle to find some essence in man and his universe beyond its tragic appearance: that naturalistic appearance which is the core of "The Moon in the Caribees" and "Desire Under the Eims." We may call it a cosmic yearning for a God of eternal meaning, but this philosophical and poetic urge has seemed always to be only half in earnest, at once passionately sought for and scornfully east aside. In "Strange Interlude" there are poetic outbursts from Nina identifying God with herself as an all-compassionate Mother...
Having recently returned to America, my attention has been drawn to an account in your issue of Dec. 18 headed "Premier Duke & Jackson'' describing the tragic fire which took place at my house the "Heronry," England...
...evolution of the novelist Galsworthy "through the interpretative medium of mood and mental attitude." The three chief figures in "The Man of Property" she takes as symbols of certain prime, moving ideas: "The Will to Property," "Beauty, impinging on a possessive world," and "the eternal force of Passion." The tragic clash of these three, in its grimness and covert intensity, is compared to Greek tragedy. How cleverly the authoress has argued her parallel may be seen by this sentence: "An instinctive dread, a premonition of danger, seizes the Chorus (the lesser Forsytes) even before the appearance of this strange...