Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which he symbolizes the present generation, states Mr. Fadiman, there has sprung up about Homingway "a real contemporary here myth." The similarity between Byron and Hemingway, says the author, lies in the fact that they were both post-war men, and that "in the heart of both lies a tragic sense of defeat, vitalized by a burning rebellion," Hemingway has shown his contemporaries the mirror of themselves a man too cynical for sophistication, returning to the elemental things, where all else has played him false...
Though some Irishmen have learned to write English very well, the language is even less native to Ireland than it is to the U. S. The typical Irish writer wears his English with a difference. Racial bias toward tragic fancy, racial prejudice against successful fact give the Irish writer a peculiar angle on even plain Saxon themes. Author Stuart's theme is patriotism-which to an Irishman is partly like politics and partly like being in love. His tale, which starts realistically enough and wanders through dirty Dublin streets, ends toward the stars...
Having lived chiefly in France since 1890, he sailed at last in December 1928, for Brazil. His return was an heroic but tragic event. The official plane Alberto Santos-Dumont flew forth to greet the hero apropos, fell into a tailspin, drowned all 14 greeters. Alberto Santos-Dumont never recovered from the shock...
...lunatic but not until a lion (Jackie, of the Selig Zoo, Los Angeles) has escaped from his cage and crawled into a taxicab from which he presently emerges to enter the Casino just after its guests have survived the shock of the holdup. All this assorted violence, sometimes tragic, sometimes farcical, makes Central Park a thoroughly diverting, wholly unreliable portrait of an environment which most small children find dull because it contains nothing more dangerous than rocks, squirrels and bad-tempered nurses...
...publish the discoveries of trained scholars which are being made all the time. In all fields of research, whether in applied sciences or in the arts, this particular side of the problem is not realized except by those who are directly connected with it. There exists a no more tragic spectacle, to my mind, than that of the striving student who is working in his field of interest, and is ever aware of the fact that at any time someone, somewhere, may finish the same piece of work he is doing, and publish it just before he does. More unfortunate...