Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever ascertain "clear compulsion" for either choice in a situation with the ramifications of atmospheric testing. Substantial right-wing pressure, though, may well compel Kennedy to resume tests. Such a development would be tragic, for the arguments of the politicians are as scientifically shallow as they are morally infantile. Vigilant Mr. Rockefeller has been exceedingly irresponsible...
...radiant effect of Britten's composition was, however, rudely shattered by the last selection, Brahms' familiar Tragic Overture. I cannot understand why anyone would want to close a concert with this piece, and to do so after the Serenade was a programmatic catastrophe. The orchestra performed with commendable precision and gusto, but Brahms' overture was never more tragic. Poor programming caused an otherwise fine evening to end in this most unsatisfactory...
...whole, Comment is sloppy. Too often does it substitute opinion for thought. And too frequently does it confront the reader with bad writing. Such faults are not the more excusable because of Comment's high principles; rather, they are the more tragic. It is a pity to see a magazine like Comment's handicapped by soft-hearted editing...
...increased importance of the General Assembly, where this bloc can assert its full strength, Rusher said, has resulted in the "tragic and insane" spectacle of United States-financed troops opposing the pro-Western regime of Molshe Tshombe in Katanga Province in the Congo...
...German occult scholar and vampire expert, embodies the intellectual's plight of being disregarded by society. Otto Krueger turns in an admirable performance as the sensitive young psychiatrist who knows he is unable to understand or mediate the deeper workings of the mind. And above all is the towering tragic figure of Countess Elesca-Dracula's daughter-swept along like a bit of ash in a wind to her final agony in the Transylvanian castle where her heart is pierced by a deadly wooden shaft...