Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What mankind now needs, Author Koestler strongly implies, is a great sleepwalker who could resolve the tragic and longstanding schism between science and faith. Otherwise, he fears, science will become simply "the new Baal, lording it over the moral vacuum with his electronic brain...
...early next week. Peabody's family decided that a fifty dollar prize for books, no single volume of which may cost over ten cents, would the most fitting memorial for Courtney Courtney, who graduated at the very bottom of a class of 863 back in 1935. Courtney met his tragic end last May, when he failed to keep his mouth closed during a tropical thunderstorm...
...President Eisenhower one day last week Clare Booth Luce submitted her resignation. Taking global view from a vantage point high atop towers of Manhattan's fabled, fantastic Rockefeller Center was mellowing mate Henry R. Signposts pointed to a clear and tragic dilemma, resolved only by judicious sacrifice by Clare, chic and civic at fifty-five...
...ears from his first bull, two ears and a tail from his second. Wrote a critic for El Redondel, Mexico City's bullfight weekly: "The gentleman of the bullring, with a face as impassive as a sphinx, withstood stoically the angry charges of the brave bull. With the tragic rhythm of the bullfight, not moving an inch and employing grace as well as mathematical precision, Clements killed his enemy with one thrust of the estoque [sword]. It was a classical kill, the likes of which we had not seen in a long time...
...Spain to study under Tutor Franklin, trained for more than two years on a rigorous daily schedule that began at 5 a.m. with a three-hour session at a slaughterhouse, where he practiced killing bulls. In Spain he acquired a matador's long sideburns and a sense of tragic ritual that contrasts oddly with his Texas drawl and quick grin. His father, a welding-company owner, backed him all the way, spent $25,000 on his training. "I told that knucklehead I'd go with him to the last drop of blood," says Baron Clements...