Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Gulliver Unravels. At this point it may be suspected that Burgess is merely putting on a Grand Guignol and that he shares Alex's taste for the existentialist's "gratuitous act" or pointless crime. He is not. Alex's later story is "like tragic" and expounds a bitter moral theorem. He is jailed and selected by the state authorities for Reclamation Treatment. Under drugs and with his eyelids clipped open, he is forced to watch an endless succession of films showing Japanese and Nazi tortures while Beethoven supplies the sound track. Then, conditioned like Pavlov...
...previous lectures, Schrade called such music dramas only close forms of tragedy; he claimed that baroque opera consisted only of "tragic situations" and that Wagner did not depart from this practice...
...mean that it was not tragedy. The plot, he said, was a secondary, forgotten matter; it was the "labyrinth of passions" given by the music that made the drama tragedy. Yet the limitations which contemporary culture placed on librettos made such opera only "a diverse drama with tragic episodes protruding." Baroque opera gave in the end "a blissfulness at least congenial to the awful intelligence of tragedy...
...Tragic Anecdotes. The explosion shot a half-ton piece of the Mont Blanc's anchor two miles through the air. It pulled a sailor off the deck of a nearby merchantman, and tossed him up to the top of a hill half a mile away. Somehow he lived. It tore rocks up from the bottom of the harbor and sent them raining from on high. It sucked up so much water that divers working 22 ft. down elsewhere in the harbor suddenly found themselves standing chest-deep and wallowing for their lives before the onrush of a tidal wave...