Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maggie Higgins, who complained: "Reporters here would like to see us lose the war to prove they're right." She went out into the field in an effort to get "the seldom-told other side of the story," a story, she insisted, "that contrasts violently with the tragic headlines and anti-Diem ferment in the big cities...
...silver black), newspapers warned amateur mycologists to take their harvests to experts for inspection. The appeals for caution had their echo in distant Washington, where Eugene Batisse, French-born chef at Le Bistro, the U.S. capital's popular restaurant and New Frontier hangout, took his family on a tragic mushroom-picking expedition in Rock Creek Park, near their suburban Chevy Chase home. Afterward, Mme. Batisse fried the crop in oil and garlic and served it up at lunch for her husband, ten-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter; by next morning, all the family were...
Keats's life, already tre subject of four major studies, holds a peculiar fascination for both the general reader and the aspiring writer. For the first there is grand, poignant drama in the tragic story of the neglected genius, his famous love affair with Fanny Brawne, and his death of consumption at twenty-five. Even more, there is the charm of the man himself as be appears in his poems and letters and his friends' reminiscences--warm, sensitive and noble, the most Shakespearean of modern poets...
What broke up the uneasy coalition and brought on Norway's first government crisis in a generation was a tragic scandal in the state-run coal mines. In recent years, four disastrous explosions and several lesser accidents have plagued the mines, at a cost of 74 lives. Several weeks ago, an investigating commission charged official negligence. Last week, after four days of angry debate, the two splinter Socialists joined with the opposition in a no-confidence vote. One of the leftists, Finn Gustavsen, explained that the S.P.P. toppled Gerhardsen because "he has no longer any contact with the working...
...infrequent moments of excellence in this tragic-comic musical, based on the life of actress Laurette Taylor, are directly attributable to the irrepressible spirit of Mary Martin, which occasionally manages to break through the bog of mediocre music, a trite score, miserably drab sets, and a despondent story...