Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition, Rockefeller is described as still deeply shaken by the tragic loss of his adventurous 23-year-old son, Michael, last month in Dutch New Guinea...
Marx Bros. Plus Myths. After Beckett, the absurdist message is crystallized: life is a tragic farce. The absurdist reasoning goes like this: death makes any act of life futile, hence farcical, the funny side of absurdity. But if "God is dead," as Nietzsche proclaimed and the theater of the absurd assumes, then the universe itself is senseless, the tragic side of absurdity. For all their bravado, the playwrights of the absurd are inconsolable at the vision of a godless universe, but they regard their audiences as complacent, apathetic, asleep. With taunts and shock effects, by continually destroying illusion to remind...
Ends & Means. From every quarter, the U.N. was accused of hastening its own demise. "Perhaps the most significant, certainly the most tragic story of 1961," suggested the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, "is the fast dwindling influence of the United Nations. Its prestige has been disintegrating with a sickening speed, until now it is but a mocking shell of a great dream-'a world parliament to ensure lasting peace.' '' To the Dallas Times Herald, the U.N. was "looking worse and worse in what at best is a sorry spectacle...
...streets are long and the street song. The birds fly over the days fly along. The birds all new A new day now for boy and girl for man and lady. This poetic pabulum somehow misses the tragic sense of life remembered from, say, Old Mother Hubbard or Three Blind Mice, and is, moreover, unchantable. Furthermore, those writing for today's young would not dream of mentioning a scandalous one-woman population explosion like Mother Hubbard and her substandard housing, and no farmer's wife would be allowed to behave so sadistically toward three handicapped mice...
...throne for a pair of reechy kisses, all of Denmark trembled and sickened. It is hard to tremble at the revelations of The Rest Is Silence--partly because there was already something rotten in Germany before old Claudius was murdered, but more because these are pathetic, not tragic figures. What remains of the play is a kind of literary parlor trick--there is a certain fascination in trying to figure out what will appear from the real Hamlet in the next scene--and nothing more. To call this film worth seeing would be laying much too flattering an unction...