Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refuses to equate man's frailty with his destiny. He never confuses the tragic with the merely hopeless. Seferis' career as a diplomat in many of the world's trouble spots has conditioned his view of history as a terrain of action rather than impotence. Indeed, so diligent a diplomat is Seferis that he writes all his poetry at night, often as late as 3 a.m., when he can concentrate in solitude...
...achieve in a lifetime. How do they get that way? Is it, as Author Lee has suggested, that the South is the last refuge of eccentrics in America? Or is it that the South is the only region in America with a lingering memory of aristocracy and a true tragic sense born of defeat? "The South," as Allen Tate puts it, "has had reverses that permit her people to imagine what they might have been and only thus can people discover what they...
...Gene Scott, the finalists in last year's New England tournament, have graduated, as have Giff Hopkins, Rick Wallace and Sunny Howe. Mike Neely has dropped out of school, and--to top coach John Skillman's woes--Sid Wood and captain-elect Craig Joyner were killed in a tragic automobile accident just before the current season started...
Phaedra and Figaro, translated by Robert Lowell and Jacques Barzun. Two dramas of sexuality, one tragic and one comic, rendered with a skill that does justice to the fiery poetry of Racine and the bubbling word play of Beaumarchais...
...Russians have done it again! What a tragic waste of talent has gone into the duplication of effort in the U.S. and the British Commonwealth. With British genius for original research and U.S. genius for application and production, we could be way out in front...