Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ignorant, blatant and irrational bigotry displayed by white Mississippians during the freedom march [July 1] is a tragic disgrace to everyone who supports the ideals on which the U.S. was founded. The peals of shock ringing out across this country will soon become the death knell of the white reactionary movement in Mississippi...
Sophoclean Horror. First policeman on the scene was Patrolman Daniel Kelly, who, by tragic coincidence, had known Gloria Davy and used to date her sister Charlene. Said another officer: "The bodies were piled up like in a Nazi prison camp." It was indeed a scene of Sophoclean horror. A pool of blood glistened on the floor of one bedroom. In another, a torn, blood-soaked bed comforter lay under a two-piece yellow-and-white bathing suit that had been hung up to dry. The pages of a mimeographed lecture ("The Mental Mechanisms for Ego Defense") were strewn about...
...only jarring note in Wacker's tragic tale of passion was the fact that his beloved is an automobile-a glossy black Mercedes 180. In car-crazy West Germany, justice takes such autoeroticism into sympathetic account. Last week Wacker was preparing to appeal a prison sentence of two years and seven months for "manslaughter with mitigating circumstances." Most Germans would applaud the lightness of the sentence. "My car is a very special friend of mine," explains one car owner. "It's like a human being. I talk to my car. I greet it in the morning...
...whites, who bridle at the exclusionary connotations of black power; last week Author Lillian Smith (Strange Fruit) resigned in protest from CORE, whose membership was 50% white only five years ago. Black power is certainly submerging the bread-and-butter issues that matter deeply to aspiring Negroes. Perhaps most tragic of all, it turned last week into an attack on the Negro middle class, which has borne most of the leadership burden of the civil rights struggle and has the technical and professional know-how that is indispensable in preparing other Negroes to pass through the doors now opening...
...Pace of Change. The conflict between the hierarchy and its flock is a tragic but perhaps inevitable clash between generations in which merit can be found on both sides. As one sympathetic Spanish layman put it, "The bishops fear a return to the chaos of the past, and with good reason. Yet the younger clergy, which is not burdened with Spanish history, looks to the future." Both aging prelates and youthful priests agree that a transformation of the church in the light of the council is inevitable; what divides them is the pace of such change...