Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During his decade as Boylston Professor, MacLeish has written four more plays. In The Trojan Horse (1952) he turned Homer's tale into a tragic and powerful parable about McCarthyism and the destructive force of fear and unreason. He specifically authorized its production without scenery, or over the radio. This Music Crept By Me Upon the Waters (1953), a comedy about five couples who have withdrawn from the banalities of the business world to a "paradise" in the Antilles, does not succeed; its obscurities prevent it from working on the stage...
...desertion that all the weak strands of his character begin to tangle up. The minister is a weakling himself, but he is persistent. What follows is the revolting zigzag course of a weak, sensual, selfish and confused moral bankrupt. He returns to his wife; he walks out again; a tragic incident sends him back to her once more-and again he runs out. Can he go back to Ruth, pregnant and contemptuous of his weakness? When he goes out on a simple errand, all his failings converge on him at once, and again he runs, runs, runs...
...names Midshipmen and Engineers are no laughing matter for the Crimson. Although Ford and his cohorts out-sailed the Coast Guard and M.I.T. last Saturday, Sunday's tale was somewhat tragic...
...merely to punish the prime minister for having "clumsily handled the problems of the Liberal Democratic Party." The third incident differed from the previous two in that the youth had undertaken the act out of a genuine political conviction. Obviously, the governmental party had nothing to do with this tragic event. Nor does it seem that the assassin represents a significant portion of the population, or act is suggestive of the strength of in Japan today. Nevertheless assassination is significant as an indicator of what could happen in a lacking a parliamentarian tradition the sense that we described above thermore...
...understandably reluctant to associate itself with colonialism and the French debacle in Algeria. Yet the alternatives to supporting France involve either voting with the Soviet Union against a NATO ally,--in a tragic repetition of Suez--or remaining silent while the General Assembly lessens the chances for a lasting peace in Algeria...