Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the Warren report is published, I am waiting for the journalists and television commentators to correct the gross errors that they made. Immediately after the tragic act, these opinion molders started a campaign trying to convince the public that the assassination took place because of the "extreme right-wingers" in Dallas. In fact, Dallas people put on sack cloth and ashes as if each and every one were partly guilty. Even university professors wrote books and articles about this guilt. The FBI and the Secret Service were criticized because they should have "rounded up" or done something or other...
...blown-up film stills fill the stage while a lighted news ticker across the backdrop impersonally taps out the monstrous dance of death: ALLIES LOSE 850,000 MEN IN 1914. Mockingly ironic, magnetically fascinating, Lovely War defies a playgoer to settle back in his seat. Tender, frolicsome and tragic, it turns spilled blood into tears and evokes laughter in hell...
Though the movie follows roughly the same plot, the darkly gleaming heart of it has undergone major surgery. In a postscript to his play, Dürrenmatt wrote: "Nothing could harm this comedy with a tragic end more than heavy seriousness." Director Bernhard Wicki falls into that error, compounding it with a gimmicky screenplay. The eunuchs, the coffin, and much of the mordant wit are omitted, as is the wooden leg. The sex angle is fattened up with a juicy subplot. And to make the slow corrosion of conscience more graphic, the good burghers of Guellen struggle against...
Under agency regulations, Chief Rowley could have fired the men."However," says the Commission, "he felt that any disciplinary action might have given rise to an inference that the violation of the regulation had contributed to the tragic events of November 22. Since he was convinced this was not the case, he believed that it would be unfair to the agents and their families to take explicit disciplinary measures." To which the Commission commented: "It is conceivable that those men who had little sleep, and who had consumed alcoholic beverages, even in limited quantities, might have been more alert...
...Triumph. The death of long-ailing Grotewohl at 70 left Ulbricht as the only, lonely survivor of the old guard of East German Communism. A tragic anti-hero who might have stepped from the pages of a Graham Greene novel, Grotewohl, as leader of the Social Democratic Party in the Soviet Zone after World War II, had one brief moment of importance. He used it to ally the Social Democrats to the Communists, symbolized in his famous walk from the right of an East Berlin operetta theater in 1946 to shake hands center-stage with Communist East German President Wilhelm...