Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first provision in the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights bars "an establishment of religion." Last week the Supreme Court handed down a decision affirming that provision-and thereby brought upon itself a deluge of denunciation. Eminent clergymen attacked the decision as "shocking" and "tragic." Members of Congress put forward a score of proposed constitutional amendments to nullify the effects of the ruling. Newspapers, snowed under by wrathful letters from readers, erupted in editorial anger. To the Supreme Court Building in Washington came hundreds of letters and telegrams agreeing with the sentiments of Los Angeles Municipal Judge...
Richard II is the first instalment in Shakespeare's tetralogical study in the essence of the art of kingship. The play is not people with good guys and bad guys; it is a sober study in greys. Richard's downfall is, perhaps, not really tragic (for one thing, he enjoys it too much); but it is pathetic. The true tragedy is that almost all the characters, mixtures of good and bad, are by their circumstances prevented from making the most of their innate potentialities. They are the right people in the wrong place or the wrong time. or both...
...that context, said Buber last week, Eichmann's hanging was a "mistake of historical dimensions. I cannot prove it now," he said, "but our children will. They will see how great a tragic error...
...tragic accident, but the thing about it that most bothered Detroiters last week was the place where it happened : a drive-in. For drive-in restaurants are fast becoming the hangouts for teenagers that corner drugstores used to be-with a considerable difference. In the dark of their cars, boys and girls can do more than consume hamburgers and milkshakes, and many an adult buys liquor and brings it to a drive-in to sell at fat profits to the underaged from the back...
Many of Judy's songs are Scottish, English or Irish, and some of them-The Golden Apples of the Sun, The Bonnie Ship the Diamond-are not often heard in folk circles. If Baez has a tragic sense and Dobson an antic one, Collins has an intense, Holy Roller quality. Colorado-born, she is married to a teacher of English at the University of Connecticut...