Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tragic death of Marilyn Monroe, whether accidental or otherwise, emphasizes the potential danger of having sleeping pills within easy access...
...HATE IS ALWAYS TRAGIC...
Nonviolent resistance also provides a creative force through which men can channelize their discontent. It does not require that they abandon their discontent. This discontent is sound and healthy. Nonviolence saves it from degenerating into morbid bitterness and hatred. Hate is always tragic. It is as injurious to the hater as it is to the hated. It distorts the personality and scars the soul. Psychiatrists are telling us now that many of the inner conflicts and strange things that happen in the subconscious are rooted in hate. So they are now saying, "Love or perish." This is the beauty...
...with the operetta lyricist Oscar Hammerstein. Characteristics of the realistic musical comedy tradition, stemming from John Gay's Beggar's Opera and similar' works, include a selection of bouncy tunes that require no great vocal prowess to sing, a comic plot that may be either broadly farcical or almost tragic (as in Pal Joey), and a somewhat bawdy story line...
Others instinctively felt that the Supreme Court was setting forth a new doctrine that distorted the intent of the authors of the First Amendment. Thus Cardinal Spellman called the ruling a "tragic misreading of the prayerfully weighed words of our Founding Fathers." But Founding Father James Madison, among others, interpreted the prohibition against "establishment of religion" far more strictly and sweepingly than the Supreme Court did last week. In Madison's opinion, tax exemption for churches was unconstitutional. So were chaplains for Congress or for the armed forces...