Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...popular theory, sponsored by Senator Kennedy himself, that he "lost his cool" is not supported by fact. Events on that tragic night show that the Kennedy machine swung coolly and efficiently into action under the Senator's personal direction and in a scant few hours devised a master strategy. We can but marvel at the Senator's determination and the ruthless power of his political apparatus. Or should we be just a bit frightened...
GustavMaler felt incandescently what many of us dimly perceive: That man's life is usually neither tragic nor comic nor tragicomic, neither unbearably sad nor inordinately funny, nut a confluence of tiny outrages and satisfactio9ns ornamented by language spoken and language dreamed, which could be enriched only trough the articulate passion...
...essential that our leaders be equipped with the quality of stability, a trait the Senator has clearly demonstrated he does not possess. Following the tragic event on Martha's Vineyard, Senator Kennedy demonstrated his inability to act with clarity of mind in the face of personal crisis. The legal advice at his elbow was not worthy of that respected profession. It worries me that this young man would be no better advised when the safety of my fellow Americans is involved. The grief that has plagued the Kennedy family is sorely regretted, but in the interests of our national...
David's mother was taking a tranquilizer during her pregnancy nine years ago. So was Richard's mother, a year later. For both, the drug was prescribed under its British trade name, Distaval, one of the innumerable synonyms for thalidomide.* By whatever name, thalidomide had tragic effects on thousands of the unborn. David was born with neither arms nor legs. Richard has legs but no arms and only a single digit projecting from his right shoulder...
...former student and colleague of Robert McCloskey, I feel his death as a tragic loss. He was a man of passion. All his intensity, vigor, commitment, his uncomplacent integrity, vigor, commitment, his uncomplacent integrity were devoted to fairness, clarity, understanding and humaneness. This is what made him so superb a teacher. The white heat of his mind and heart was at the service of nothing else than light...