Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...happiness in heaven tended to destroy man's will to power, and exalted the meek and humble losers of life instead of world-conquering supermen. Albert Camus searched Christian theology in vain for the fulfillment of man's fate, found more satisfactory standards in his own tragic ponderings on human responsibility and solidarity...
What makes a perfect king? Shakespeare gave us his answer in Henry V. This play caps a four-part study of kingship in which we have portraits of three successive monarchs. In Richard II the playwright showed us a tragic and complex incompetent; in the two parts of Henry IV we have a competent king who cannot surmount the unlawful manner he secured the crown...
...believe it is a most tragic and portentous decision. Our forefathers fought and died to give us the privilege of worshiping God in our own way, not of not worshiping...
Nevertheless, this Festival production is impressive and purgative. And Carnovsky's king is classical tragic acting of rare stature; we are not likely to see a better Lear in our times...
...civilians had died in German raids. In telling his story, Rumpf has a habit of minimizing German aggression; the official British report on strategic bombing, published in 1961, is a much more balanced appraisal. But in many ways, it confirms Rumpf's own judgment: strategic bombing was a tragic failure...