Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Concern for cost is undeniably the Corporation's business, but although the question of price tags on Harvard's new projects is an essential one, it would be nothing less than tragic to see the Fellows cutting corners on Le Corbusier for the sake of small economics. Happily, they approved his drawings almost without reservation by Commencement...
...becoming ever clearer that the U.S. committed a tragic blunder last August in allowing the Reds to put up their wall through Berlin-and thus to win a test of strength with the West. The fact that the Wall has by now become the most familiar landmark in Berlin only makes the situation more poignant. Last week James Bell, TIME bureau chief in Germany, toured the 25-mile barrier. His report...
...blame for Mr. Hammarskjold's tragic death lies entirely on the unfortunate U.N. action in Katanga [Sept. 22], trying to re-incorporate the "secessionist" province...
...this plan should not be adopted too hastily, for a tragic consequence of the present farm program has been the shriveling of alternatives. Perhaps the country should retain a specified number of surplus farmers. All-out nuclear war would transform the United States into a primitive agrarian society. Thus, to insure the existence of a maximum number of self-sufficient food producers, maintenance of currently superfluous small farmers might be desirable. Moreover, it would probably be wise to establish food storage depots on the periphery of large cities. Surplus commodities stored in this manner (as emergency stockpiles) would...
Finally, Hammarskjold's heavy and ultimately tragic military intervention in Katanga aroused more Western antagonism than almost anything else he had done. That failure was not merely an error of military judgment, but could be traced back directly to the inherent confusion about the U.N.'s function and powers in the world. Thus the U.S. is faced not merely with Russia's perennial wrecking tactics; the U.N. after all can serve as an extremely useful mirror to show these tactics to the world. Nor is the U.S. merely faced with the political irresponsibility of the "new" nations...