Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were ready for a dinner conference with TIME'S managing editor. The entire section was written, edited, checked and in type not long after our usual press time on Saturday night. Weary Editor Clark and his colleagues found the project both exciting and haunting, for it revived the tragic happenings of last November with extraordinary immediacy...
...mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city.' " Later in the week in Harrisburg, he delivered a harsh attack on extremists, who, he claimed, "demand that you choose a doctrine alien to America-a doctrine that would lead to a tragic convulsion in our foreign relations-a doctrine that flouts the unity of our society and searches for scapegoats among our people...
...country's most popular political figures until her death in an auto accident five weeks ago. In Santiago municipal elections last year, she herself won an alderman's seat with the biggest majority of any candidate. Some 40,000 women turned out for her funeral, and her tragic death just before the presidential elections almost certainly led to a sympathy vote...
...black nightmare paintings. Their colors are gloomy or veiled. They rarely use oils pure from the tube but rather blend them with earths to make their impastos. They seem, like the flamenco dancer holding his head high while his feet stomp in the dust, trapped in a tragic, often elegant, dilemma between formality and earthiness...
Changeless Nightmare. In his allusion to Korea, Goldwater touched a responsive nerve, for the American people's experience in South Viet Nam has been the most frustrating since the long, tragic "police action" of the 1950s that ended in a stalemate with the Reds, at a cost of 33,629 U.S. lives. Small wonder that a recent American visitor to Viet Nam, on his third night in Saigon, had a dream in which he discovered the solution to the Vietnamese problem. "It was brilliant and simple," he recalls, "but somehow it kept slipping away." Feeling slightly embarrassed, he confided...