Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absorbing pursuit. Yet in spite of gracious hours spent under Back Bay auspices, this exposure of the debutante business might well be considered pertinent in University circles. It seems rather sad that such vast organization should be required before the shrinking bud can be successfully plucked. It seems almost tragic that the personal element should be lost in the giant network of the matrimonial market. If the present racket should develop consistently, obviously the next step is to establish a black-board and ticker tape at the Somerset in direct communication with a subsidiary machine at University Hall...
...water in a wrecked submarine, behave. The crew of the 513 comes back from shore leave, goes to sea. The 513 is sunk. They have enough air to live about five hours. At first their imminent fate is merely an unthinkable horror, remote and impersonal: it becomes human and tragic because, as time passes, in the manner in which each man faces or avoids the thought of what is coming his nature is made clear. There is Pollack who goes crazy and is shot. There is the ensign in command, a little fellow just out of Annapolis, with a pathetic...
...full of smut!" Says Critic Henry Seidel Canby: "Joyce is a pioneer in the technique of the stream-of-consciousness novel, and very influential. His books, however, lack the control of a great artist." Says Editor Ellery Sedgwick (Atlantic Monthly)'. "In Ulysses Joyce made an original contribution to tragic literature, highly stimulating to conscious writers of subconscious fiction." Controversy still rages about whether or not Ulysses is really obscene. Joyce himself does not like dirty stories. A U. S. admirer chucklingly told Editor Jane Heap (of the late great Little Review) he was sending Joyce a choice collection...
...devious history of a master of aggrandizement, a luxurious pageant of 18th Century Swabia, teeming with personalities. Actor Maurice Moscovitch, once famed in Manhattan's Yiddish theatres and more recently in London, has a few moments over the bier of his daughter when his voice is moving with tragic cadences. But you cannot forget that this is merely splendid histrionism, embellishing a void...
...following the collapse of Austria-Hungary, Karolyi was for six months President of the Republic of Hungary. He realized the tragic situation of his country only when the Allies established the Magyar Boundaries. When the communists under Bela Kun took possession of the Army and Police, Karolyi could only resign...