Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read with particular interest the article about our new ambassadors [Jan. 12]. Ed Reischauer was a contemporary of mine at Oberlin. His older brother Bob was a classmate and close friend of mine. It was tragic and ironic that Bob was killed by a Japanese bomb dropped on a Shanghai hotel in 1937, since Bob grew up in Japan...
...through the barbed wire above ground. His curiosity aroused by conflicting reports, a United Press International reporter, Rolf Steinberg, soon had the straight story from the refugees themselves, and his editors put it on the wire. The Berlin city government and the local press angrily denounced "this tragic indiscretion,'' which, they argued, made it impossible for others to use the tunnel. But the U.P.I, pointed out that Communist Vopos swarmed in and occupied the stucco house three hours before their story of "the tunnel was distributed...
...Alberg-Advance organization which controls the HYRC has done the Republican party and all Harvard Republicans a great disservice. It is tragic that Alberg and Wallison have allowed themselves and, hence, the club to become associated with this effort," Williams' statement said...
...lowest ebb." With these words, France's existentialist philosopher and left-wing propagandist, Jean-Paul Sartre, donned the mantle of doom for his countrymen.* Describing the much-discussed crisis of conscience confronting France as a result of the Algerian war, Sartre coined a new expression, "involution" -a tragic process by which the former colonizers adopt the savagery of the native lands they once colonized...
...rapt attention of the shaggy boys, girls and dogs scattered around his Greenwich Village pad. In a campus dormitory in Ohio, in a café alonng San Francisco's North Beach, in a living room in upper-class Grosse Pointe, Mich., other singers with guitars chant tales of tragic love. In fact, all over the U.S., people of all descriptions-young and middleaged, students, doctors, lawyers, farmers, cops-are plucking guitars and moaning folk songs, happily discovering that they can amuse both themselves and their friends. The guitar has become a ready and easy form of home entertainment, cheaper...