Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everywhere Deplored. The U.S. State Department, freely intruding in another nation's internal affairs contrary to usual practice, "deplored" the violence and "regretted" the tragic loss of life. U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold said that the U.N. was entitled to discuss the race riots, even if it could not intervene over them, and added: "In humanitarian terms, you need not have any doubt about my feelings." On petition of 29 Afro-Asian U.N. members, U.S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge, as the current president of the Security Council, set a meeting for this week...
...British press attache in Athens, Cairo and Alexandria. In 1952, ic was ready to begin the "Big-City Tone Poem" that had been bubbling in his mind for more than a decade, only to lave the Cyprus crisis force him back to press-officer duty amid the tragic rup-;ure of Anglo-Hellenic relationships, which Durrell later movingly described in Bitter Lemons (TIME, March 24, 1958). Finally, in the years 1956-59, beginning in Cyprus and ending in Southern France, Durrell wrote The Alexandria Quartet...
...seems almost conservative. The new play has a bank clerk named Sam Harkaharkalark, a bank president named Mr. Horniman, and a succession of other Saroyantic types who deposit both cash and wisdom. Among them: a stripper named Daisy Dimple, a blind man who doubles as "squopper'' or tragic chorus, a gypsy who spouts Greek that translates into Saroyanese. ("All is not all. How could it ever be?" ) Also in the cast of characters: a girl who is having a baby by an American named Marlon Brando Cavalcanti and who worries about radioactive fallout, a Scotland Yard inspector named...
...satiric fiasco) and his maneuvering for a promotion. There is taut melodrama involving the escape of a couple of interned Palestinian terrorists, who call Cecil "Spurgeon the Virgin" (possibly the reason why Author Griffin gave him this family name). At novel's end-complacently unaware of the tragic mess he caused, including the inadvertent killing of his wife-Cecil is scrawling a letter to his old school paper, announcing his promotion to deputy commissioner and his unfailing devotion to the school motto, "Do your best . . . and then do better...
Sunday Showcase (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). The rumped-up Iwo Jima heroism and tragic alcoholic death of U.S. Marine Ira Hayes help make The American a bitter commentary on the life and hard times of America's Pima Indians. Stars: Lee (M Squad) Marvin and Steven Hill...