Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer any maybe. That was the question of U.S. intentions. Speaking to the U.N. in Paris, Secretary of State George Marshall said: "The United States does not wish to increase the existing tension. It is its wholehearted desire to alleviate that tension . . . [But] it would be a tragic error if ... patience . . . should be mistaken for weakness...
...Tragic Fact." Sketching the familiar pattern of Communism's march, Dewey cried: "The tragic fact is that too often our own Government . . . seems to have so far lost faith in our system of free opportunity as to encourage this Communist advance, not hinder it ... Communists and fellow travelers [have] risen to positions of trust in our Government ... On that very day when a poor distraught schoolteacher ventured death to jump to freedom . . . the head of our own Government called the exposure of Communists in our Government 'a red herring...
...Portland, Me., the police chief found some of Erskine Caldwell's writing (see BOOKS) "distasteful," banned God's Little Acre (published in 1933), Journeyman (1935) and Tragic Ground...
...course, that Author Greene shares with some of his readers the sentimental view of Scobie as a hero-without quotation marks. It seems more probable that he tried to write a true tragedy and succeeded in writing a suggestive melodrama, with tragic overtones and ironic implications...
...suggestion that a soldier foully killed in the insane violence of modern combat would retain the violence-and insanity-after death; its weakness comes of pushing this suggestion too far, implying that no human kindness or decency could survive modern warfare, and thus turning what might have been a tragic moral struggle into a necrophiliac nightmare...