Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite whatever furor the Councilor and others can raise, the party in Cambridge is almost certain to be tragic...
Following Huxley and Paul Tillich, Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology, spoke on the changes that the new technology has brought. "We have increased the sense of effectiveness in life but have not reduced the tragic in life," he declared...
...southern Peru were hit by disastrous drought. The 1,000,000 Indian peasants, who chronically suffer from malnutrition, faced outright famine. From Point Four headquarters in Washington went orders that sent 100,000 tons of surplus corn, wheat, barley and dried milk on its way to Peru. The tragic story of just how little of the food found its way into the stomachs of starving Peruvians emerged last week, thanks to a congressional committee in Washington and a hard-digging U.S. newspaperman in Lima...
...obligation to make sure that the remainder of the 20th century eradicates the conditions spawning such separatist movements in order to avoid the tragic consequences of similar "cargo cults." The "Messiah" who appeared to the Western Indians about 1890 also promised them an Armageddon with a postscript of a land of "milk and honey" reserved exclusively for red men, of course. The result was gunpowder, chaos and tragedy for those who tried to hurry Armageddon, and those who maintained quiet hopes must still be waiting. Spencer C. D. Jourdain...
...opera itself is not noteworthy, the performance it received last night quite definitely was. To the part of Maurya, Elisabeth Sheerin brought a warm if rigidly controlled voice that infused the rather stagy bereavement of the mother with true tragic grief. Perhaps Miss Sheerin's voice was not always big enough to dominate the small but remarkably loud accompanying orchestra, but what could be heard of it was most beautiful indeed...