Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indeed a tragic life. More tragic is the age-old custom of appreciating artists only after their death...
...great raconteur, Manuel reveals himself as an intelligent picaro, with a tragic marriage which ended when his wife died and his mistress married someone else, leaving him with children whom he refuses to care for. Before this trauma, he had lived through a mixed childhood, marrying at 15, but still fatally attracted to his first love. After it, he attempts to start over as a laborer in California, only to return to Mexico City and a life of shady dealings on the open market, gambling, and drink...
...fact that a failure to test would result in a serious military imbalance and, consequently, de-stabilization of the nuclear stalmate, the President might be absolutely justified in concluding that the resulting threat to peace outweighs the highly problematical (although not, for that reason, less tragic) risk of harm. As I say, I hope this is not the correct conclusion. But it seems to me frivolous to assert, without evidence, that this cannot ever be the situation...
...that McCone has made his comedy debut, he seems anxious to play a great tragic role on the cold war stage. Already he has opposed the President's suggestion for number two man in the Intelligence Unit, and the alacrity with which his demands for C.I.A. autonomy have been accepted, indicates that the criticism of last April was aimed at diverting attention from the basic causes of the Cuban policy debacle...
Died. Robinson Jeffers, 75, solitary poet of gloom, whose half-century of tragic, ironic verse won the 1960 Shelley Memorial Award; after a long illness; in Carmel, Calif. Best known for his vividly free adaptation of Euripides' Medea, he judged civilization as "a transient sickness," wrote from the tower of a massive granite house that he built near the rugged Big Sur region of the California coast...