Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be catastrophic if these voices continued to dominate. It would also be tragic if governmental officials, like the President, continued to think that a non-crisis in Vietnam deserved more attention and funds than a rising domestic calamity...
...outside herself? I don't think so. This is the closest she will ever be to having her self-containment shattered. But it can't be shattered. And just as her non-involvement protects her from an awareness of tragedy, it prevents us from thinking of her as a tragic figure. Godard is not profound, but he is a genius presenting light truths artlessly...
SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). The tragic never-never world of young addicts is explored during a group therapy session at Staten Island's Daytop Village in "Marathon: The Young Drug Users...
SELECTED LETTERS OF DYLAN THOMAS, edited by Constantine FitzGibbon. This carefully culled selection of the tragic Welsh poet's letters painfully - and touchingly -reveals that his chronic fault was a reckless profligacy in everything...
...born Communist, expelled from the party in 1932 for political deviation, Deutscher is now a Britain-based historian and widely considered one of the leading experts on Communism. His three-volume study of Trotsky (The Prophet Armed, The Prophet Unarmed, The Prophet Outcast) is an outstanding biography of that tragic revolutionary. But Deutscher is clearly also his own ideologue, surveying the Russian Revolution for his own romantic needs. This book offers a particularly revealing insight into the thinking style of an intellectual heretic who nevertheless remains a devout Marxist...