Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make two points. One of them was that where no secret information was involved (and therefore no question of national security), no federal investigation of a federal scholarship holder was justified. Mixing his metaphors, Lilienthal declared: "Once you have passed the secrecy line, you are in the broad, tragic waters of the federal government's finger in education." His other point was that such bans, once begun, might be extended to "potentially subversive" students. Bureaucratic decisions "as to who is pure and who is not pure" would, he cried, "poison the wells of academic freedom . . . Our descendants will spear...
Honorable mentions in the undergraduate division of the Bowdoin prizes went to Foote, who wrote a second piece, on "Father Hopkins: A Ritualist in Poetry"; Michael Roemer '49 for "Heartbreak House": and Walter S. Frank '49 for "The Tragic Equation: A Study of Marlowe's 'Faustus' and Goethe's 'Faust...
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...Russo-American relations are improving, that's great. But could this sudden outburst of brotherly love be somewhat influenced, perhaps, by the very firm stand of the Allies in Berlin, and by the extraordinary feat of the American air lift? It is a very common and tragic mistake to see in a change of tactics a change of strategy...
...studious observer of the dilemmas of life, the author of Jean Barois intends to remain true to his own modest self-definition: "An independent writer who . . . escaped the fascination of partisan ideologies, an investigator as objective as is humanly possible, as well as a novelist striving to express the tragic quality of individual lives...