Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Although I agree enthusiastically with your choice for Men of the Year, let us hope that next year's selection will be an individual or group of individuals who will possess the same courage, the same determination and the same national support in solving the tragic domestic and "political problems that face us all on earth...
...least scuttled their ship to keep its secrets out of Communist hands? The question bothered Georgia's Senator Richard Russell, the influential outgoing chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Finally last week, he raised the doubts that have bothered many Americans. "It is a very sad and tragic affair," he said. "We presented the Russians with hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of research in communications." Russell said that he wanted to see the orders issued to Pueblo's skipper, Commander Lloyd M. Bucher. "These men are being hailed as heroes," he added. "They are heroes...
...Loren, 34, filmdom's eternal woman (Arabesque, The Countess from Hong Kong), and Carlo Ponti, 55, her producer-husband: their first child, a boy, Carlo Jr.; in Geneva. Sophia's baby-7 lbs. 11 oz. and healthy as can be-came after years of yearning and three tragic miscarriages. She was overjoyed, while the exultant new papa promised to give Geneva a $ 1,000,000 obstetrical clinic "in gratitude...
...When Marx told his contemporaries that they were reliving as farce what the eighteenth century had experienced as national tragedy, he also told them that the way beyond both tragedy and farce was to make a revolution. At Harvard we also seem to be caught between pointless farce and tragic hope. After McNamara, Dow, and Paine Hall, many radicals hope to make a revolution. The rest of the University does not agree; hence, the Harvard community is in a crisis...
SYMPHONY NO. 6, SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI AND THE NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA (Angel, two LPs). The tragic beauty and power of this score can scarcely be matched anywhere. "It is the sum of all the suffering I have been compelled to endure at the hands of life," said Mahler. Barbirolli drains every ounce of Angst from the music, and the recording itself is superbly engineered...