Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Judgement on whether to allow the South Africans to remain in the Commonwealth turns on whether one feels there is any hope there. Everyone condemns apartheid, and certainly no one at the conference desires to support the tragic status quo in that unhappy land. But cutting South Africa loose would in no way improve its plight. Isolation would worsen the lot of the blacks, since the Afrikaaners would be driven through fear to worse repression, and it would weaken the position of the English-speaking population, the only soil for the seeds of change in the whole country. Severing...
...such a compromise must raise in the minds of non-white participants to the London conference is the meaning of Commonwealth status; for the best single argument against South Africa is that the Commonwealth is becoming the major bridge between Asians and Africans and the West. It will be tragic if this bridge between the races collapses over the false issue of apartheid. The Asians and Africans must realize that apartheid is not the issue before the conference. If they can see that Macmillan's plan is the lesser of two enormous evils, then there will still be hope...
...surface of emotion -tentative, vulnerable but never mawkish. In the last act. when Soprano Price enacted the difficult suicide with a dignity that many a famed soprano is unable to muster, Cio-Cio-San ceased to be a quaintly pathetic figure and became what she rarely isa truly tragic...
...myself possess." The central figure of the priest is disturbingly ambiguous: lonely and unable to communicate, he becomes increasingly certain of his own ineptness. But one feels that successful communication with these parishioners would only insure eventual damnation; the failure of his mission cannot, ultimately, be called a tragic one. The curate's confusion leads him to anguish; the viewer's confusion is unresolved...
While the Socialists were passing out literature accusing the U.N. of permitting Lumumba to be "murdered . . . in the name of peace," several freshmen distributed a statement declaring: "that the Young Socialist Alliance makes this man (Lumumba) a martyr is comic indeed, but more than that, it is tragic...