Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Move over, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Shakespeare, and make room for John McPhee. He well deserves a place among you, for in his penetrating study of Richard Burton, he has created a character in the heroic, tragic tradition of Prometheus, Oedipus, Orestes, and Hamlet...
...nose and his chin all but meet in front of his mouth, as though trying to hiri-d-and well they might. His mouth is a little round hole that looks as if a big fat worm lived down there-and one does. Beneath the comic mask is a tragic figure: Capannelle has a tapeworm and no teeth...
...this childhood idyl comes to a tragic end. A last desperate band of Germans, fleeing before the Allied advance, pass by the villa. Pushing the girls aside, the Germans execute their Jewish uncle's family. Returning to find his family dead and his villa in flames, Uncle Wilhelm shoots himself. Innocence has seldom had a more brutal death...
Speaking on behalf of the university, Wilmarth S. Lewis, senior fellow of the Yale Corporation, said, "The death of President Griswold at the height of his career is a tragic loss to the university, its alumni, and its friends everywhere.... His influence will continue to animate the university and the memory of him will gladden the hearts of his friends...
...stage, is Constancy (Melanie Adams), who yearns unrequited for Dr. Daly (Joel Martin), Vicar of Ploverleigh. Constancy and Dr. Daly very nearly dominate the entire evening and to no ill effect. Miss Adams has plenty of ham and an admirable voice, she can leer lasciviously and make a mock-tragic aria sound like decent Mozart. Joel Martin sang more clearly and yet with more spirit than most people speak...