Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SEASONS. Acclaimed as one of the best films of 1966, this screen adaptation of the Broadway play chronicles the tragic story of the conflict between Sir Thomas More (Paul Scofield), a noble Christian who must stand fast to his principles, and Henry VIII (Robert Shaw), a childlike King who must have the obedience and approval of his subjects...
RIGHT YOU ARE, like The School for Scandal, centers on a group of gossipers, but in Luigi Pirandello's philosophical drama, the effect is tragic and destructive. A handsome production...
Skeptics will always wonder whether Jack Ruby's televised murder of Presidential Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was the meticulously designed act of a conspiratorial network or - as the Warren Commission concluded - simply another irrational element in a tragic tangle of non sequiturs surrounding the death of John F. Kennedy...
...Even more serious, Powell has demonstrated in his dealings with the court an unrepentant contempt for judicial process and for the laws which bind the rest of the citizens of this country. Ten different judges have in fact condemned Powell for "monstrous defiance of the law" and "promoting a tragic disrespect for the judiciary...
...example; he looked on her as an American social climber, though he faithfully recorded each of the many times he met her at parties. Like many Englishmen of his generation and class, he was troubled almost as deeply about the abdication as he was about Munich. "What is so tragic," he confided in a letter to Vita, "is that now the people have got over the first sentimental shock, they want the King to abdicate. Opinion in the house is now almost wholly anti-King...