Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wild Duck is tough to digest, the left-overs of The Wild Duck are even tougher. Picking up the theme of idealism's tragic inefficiency, Rosmersholm concerns a gritty, ambitious woman who imposes on a respectable pastor the belief that he can improve mankind. While the scene never shifts from the house that has been Rosmer's family bastion for cons, Ibsen reports that there is a great liberal-conservative struggle going on outside. He also assumes that "the poor people" are more or less milling about, waiting for a self-sacrificing word from Pastor Johannes Rosmer. So much...
...substance of his argument was no different from the established U.S. position, but the temperate earnestness of his style impressed most listeners. He appealed to the neutral nations who mistakenly "believe that the U.N. can somehow accommodate this unbridled power" and warned that they were making a tragic mistake if they yielded to "the claims of an aggressive and unregenerate" Red China, that still acts "in a fashion recalling the early authoritarian Emperors." It would be, he added, "ignoring the warlike character and aggressive behavior of the rulers who . . . talk of the inevitability of war as an article of faith...
Memos & Mice. As might be expected, hardly anyone agreed with anyone else. Columnist Walter Lippmann found the 'shakeup "heartening evidence of the President's uncommon ability to learn from experience." But to David Lawrence it was "a tragic example of experimentation, lack of system, and the evil effect of partisan politics on the efficient conduct of government." Positioning himself in the cautious middle, Columnist Marquis Childs wrote that the State Department is "an overblown machine that carries into the jet age much of the apparatus of the horse-and-buggy era ... Whether it is resolved by the changes...
...Indians." To Josephy, they seem nine "good and brave men,'' whose profound sense of human dignity and love for their own people make them national heroes in the impartial eyes of history. Some of them were warriors, some statesmen; all, says Josephy, who knows his Indians, were tragic figures, "as much a part of our heritage as any of our other heroes and they belong to all Americans now, not just to the Indians...
...love without bitterness. The French woman cannot surrender her dead lover, and is haunted by his spirit in each of her frequent affairs. She never discusses the German lover, even with her husband, and confiding in the Japanese is an overwhelming accomplishment finally made possibly by the tragic city of Hiroshima...