Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Down on the Farm. The man who will have to lead Germany into the "new phase" of Western policy has three outstanding characteristics: he is well aware of Europe's great and tragic past, he is strongly committed to Ger-man-U.S. friendship, and he has unshakable faith in the destiny of free men and a free economy...
...Blackman has probably not worried too much about the possibility of losing to Holy Cross today. The Crusaders are not nearly as robust as the crew that overcame stiff Harvard resistance last year. Graduation and a truly tragic mauling by Syracuse have thinned the ranks...
...heart of Fitzgerald's dilemma in the world was that he understood that somehow his talent was involved with his neurosis. He did not "believe in psychoanalysis"; he was afraid that, if "cured," it would cost him his gift. There is tragic sincerity in his letter to John O'Hara that "the extinction of that light is much more to be dreaded than any material loss." This is not the letter of a weak...
Masters had a keen eye for the eccentric and the cantankerous, the wistful dreamer and the self-pitying failure. He tried to give them tragic dignity, but his talent rarely carried him beyond the ironic cynicism that is merely unearned despair...
...last year he suddenly settled down and made this brilliant film. My Life is a tour de style almost as startling as Breathless but more subtly accomplished, more purely felt. It is also a lyric poem in which the camera assiduously adores a beautiful woman. It is finally the tragic allegory of a soul whose pilgrimage to grace goes spiraling ecstatically down the drain...