Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real-life cousin Mary Gordon, whose rejection of the poet was one of the turning points of Swinburne's stunted emotional life. More horrifying is the explanation (in Lesbia Brandon) of the poet's lifelong fondness for being whipped. With subtle, sensual elegance, Swinburne records the slow, tragic perversion of a boy whose admiration for his severe tutor and love for his sister can be most suitably and directly expressed by learning to bear a birching without crying...
There are a number of major ironies here. To begin with, Washington has just pronounced its grief at the tragic loss of Hugh Gaitskell, whom Kennedy called a great man. Gaitskell was a great man and his death was a tragic loss. But Gaitskell was fervently and honestly against British entry into Europe; whereas De Gaulle is only bluffing until he gets American help for the French independent deterrent...
...Berlin that the tragic and dramatic lesson of what happens to a divided city came home to me, and if I could make you see it as I saw it, you would share with me my feeling that Atlanta must not be a city divided...
...fate would have it, the Tories won relief of sorts from the drumfire of criticism at home through a tragic happenstance in the Labor Party. Hugh Gaitskell, Labor's capable, hard-working leader, was rushed to London's Middlesex Hospital suffering from pneumonia, double pleurisy and severe pericarditis. In great pain and scarcely able to breathe, Gaitskell was allowed no visitors except his wife...
...emotions and near-disaster to his own career. Jock Sinclair is a study in many evils: drunkenness, cruelty, arrogance, hypocrisy; yet Guinness can keep him nearly lovable, and exact such a show of feeling from the Colonel's collapse at the fade as to make him an almost tragic figure, instead of the shoddy, imperious villain that a lesser actor might have left...