Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...importance of this lconography to them. Speaking, for example, of William Gillmore Simms--whose novel The Partisan neatly contrasts the hard-bitten but effectual Yankee, Millhouse, with the dreamy, introspective, high-born Porgy--Taylor writes. "The need to see the predicament of the South in all its complex and tragic dignity drove Simms toward a larger view, toward myth rather than toward propaganda... As he grew to accept the idea of a separate Southern destiny and as he came to feel that an impending doom was settling over his world, his imagination turned compellingly toward the great figures of tragic...
...high altitude explosion were wholly unforseen, that the government therefore acted in good faith when it authorized the test, that Van Alllen and other American scientists advised the military defense units of the country to the best of their ability, and that the whole fiasco was a tragic mistake...
...incredible vacillations on the effects of the bomb and the careful revisionism carried out by governmental agencies is enough to convince one that a deception had been perpetrated. If anyone suffers from the bomb's effects in short he will do so not because the U.S. government made a tragic, mistake but because it acted irresponsibly...
...Reivers, by William Faulkner. A last sunny romp through the usually tragic-dark acres of Yoknapatawpha County...
Before his tragic death on an expedition to Netherlands New Guinea last year, young Michael C. Rockefeller, 23, managed to collect much of what he was searching for in the far Pacific: the religious art of the Asmat, a little-known Papuan people who live on the waterlogged Casuarinen Coast. Last week Rockefeller's extraordinary collection of Asmat carvings was on exhibition by New York's Museum of Primitive Art, and Dutch Anthropologist Adrian A. Gerbrands, who accompanied Rockefeller to New Guinea, was on hand to explain the intricate symbolism...