Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film begins clumsily. As Bill Budd is impressed from his merchant ship, the "Rights of Man," to serve on Captain Vere's man-of-war, every attempt is made to set the scene for his tragic confrontation with society. Budd cries out, "Good-bye, 'Rights of Man,'" and the second lieutenant angrily but too obviously misinterprets the ambiguity. With ever more pain-staking care, the discontent of the "Avenger's" crew is endlessly thrust before the audience. Master-at-arms Claggart is not yet allowed to be more than a puppet of the director...
...Centaur, by John Updike. An imaginative retelling of the Greek myth in modern dress turns the tragic centaur Chiron into a long-suffering high school science teacher...
High Mortality. "No one knows Harold, really," says a friend. But at a press conference last week, jammed with reporters and TV cameras, Wilson set out smoothly and competently to leave the right impression. He regretted the "tragic event" of Gaitskell's death "that created this vacancy." He diplomatically declared that "a great deal of credit must go to George Brown'' for keeping the party together in the interim. Finally, Wrilson stated his three main objectives: "First, to maintain the unity of the party that Hugh Gaitskell handed on; second, to continue those policies worked out under...
...Joseph (opposite). Landscapes are notably missing: Spanish painters were mostly interested in painting people rather than scenery. But religious subjects, redolent of the mystery and aspiration that typified every Spaniard's day-by-day point of view, abound. Murillo's Christ After the Flagellation (overleaf) has a tragic, mystic quality. On the other hand, Zurbaran's St. Francis Praying, painted around 1650, is a surprisingly sophisticated example of religious preoccupation; St. Francis seems almost like a zealot interrupted at prayer and, like many old Spanish works, the picture looks surprisingly modern...
...Cuban revolution may be a failure economically," Matthews said, "but economics alone do not determine the success or failure of a revolution. When Castro and his followers seized power in 1959, they saw around them extreme social imbalance, unending corruption, and the tragic farce of democracy and capitalism...