Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accused the city manager of "throwing in the sponge" with his announcement, saying "this pessimism is tragic at this time." Crane was referring to the City's anti-Belt rally in Boston last Saturday...
...poll conducted by Poling has so far received very little attention from the general public. This leads people to think that all, not some, clergymen in the U.S. are in favor of accommodation with the atheistic regime that tortured and drove Roman Catholic nuns from the Chinese mainland. Particularly tragic is the effect on the morale of young American soldiers who are fighting in Viet Nam. If their own church leaders favor accommodation with Communists, why should they give up their lives to resist them...
...York City Opera's opening production of Handel's Julius Caesar last week was just minutes old when Contralto Maureen Forrester fixed hand to forehead, shuddered "Woe unto me," and fainted dead away. Contralto roles are like that, full of weeping and despair, the tragic counterweights that support the romantic leads. Forrester, making her U.S. operatic debut, flawlessly performed the role of Cornelia, effortlessly pouring out great billows of plum-shaded singing that served as a lush backdrop for the vocal scrollwork of the other principal singers. Where they thrilled, she caressed. Predictably, the heaviest applause went...
...home. Erhard's problems began in July when his Christian Democrats lost ground to the opposition Social Democrats in a crucial state election. Since then, he has been beset by a quasi-uprising of German generals, and by political snipers, who even blame his government for the recent tragic loss of an elderly submarine and 19 sailors. With all this going against him, Erhard badly needs a success at the White House...
...high point of felicity, caught at the moment before its dissolution. Yet the story is Updike's own; it is clearly his identifiably New Jersey-Pennsylvania family he is writing about, and the note he sounds is ironic; so far, he has left others to blow the tragic basses...