Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VOICE THROUGH A CLOUD, by Denton Welch. A man who learned to love life only when he had to leave it, Welch recounted with brilliance and precision the tragic motor accident that crippled him and the painful convalescence that only ended with his death...
...Cong in the hamlet? 2) Were the inhabitants forced by the Viet Cong to remain in the hamlet during the attack? 3) Did Viet Cong shoot at a spotter plane that directed the strike? The answer to all three questions, according to American spokesmen, was yes-and illustrated the tragic dilemma of fighting an anti-guerrilla war. Said one experienced U.S. military official: "We're just going to have to go into the Delta and winkle them out of the villages ourselves...
...VOICE THROUGH A CLOUD, by Denton Welch. A brilliant, terrible, autobiographical novel recapitulates the story of the tragic auto accident that broke Author Welch's body but gave him the clarity of a man seeing life for the last time...
...Tragic Timetable. Back home?it was now after midnight?Whitman stabbed his wife three times in the chest, apparently as she lay sleeping, and drew the bed sheet over her nude body. Then he returned to the note?partially typewritten, partially handwritten, partially printed?that was to be his valedictory. Included was a tragic timetable: "12:30 a.m.?Mother already dead. 3 o'clock?both dead." He hated his father "with a mortal passion," he wrote, and regretted that his mother had given "the best 25 years of her life to that man." Clearly, the erratic orbit...
Rosi, then, is doing battle with pretension in Moment of Truth, the pretension which has made the ritual hollow and which allows such men as Miguelia into the bullring only to meet their tragic end. The candor and the earnestness which the director brings to the film perfectly counter-points his basic message. The elemental power which he achieves will very likely make you an aficionado of Francesco Rosi, if not of bullfighting itself...