Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EXIT THE KING is a stark play about death, rich in poetry and insight. Unfortunately, as interpreted by members of the APA, King has too much of a whine and too little command to involve the audience in lonesco's tragic vision or in his character's emotional tumult...
...Nielsen's tensile construction, though, is the struggle between various keys within the same piece, a device that he carried to its logical limit while composers from Wagner to Schoenberg were melting down traditional notions of specific keys. The first movement of his Symphony No. 6 achieves a tragic effect by trying vainly to return to the idyllic G major from which it starts; it succeeds only in reaching the neighboring keys above and below...
...TRAGIC GROUND, Erskine Caldwell...
...from Times Book Critic Eliot Fremont-Smith, who found O touched with "tragic grandeur" and employing "erotic materials" to stimulate the reader to a "total, authentic literary experience...
Vietnam itself is not the subject here. Because of the very questionable nature of the war, criticism is often exclusively directed against immediate events without any consideration of long-range effects. Allowing the opinion to prevail that our Vietnam policy is not in itself a tragic mistake in foreign policy, it is nevertheless clear that the war is causing a frightening series of mistakes. By its power to "channel" young men into the "essential" industries, the SSS is forcing this college generation to continue its lopsided manpower emphasis on technological science at the expense of social science...