Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tragic & Unnecessary. It was the kind of demagoguery that Buddhist zealots understood. Only a few hours later in Saigon, Laywoman Ho Thi Thieu, 58, set herself afire as a protest against "the inhuman actions of Generals Thieu and Ky, henchmen of the Americans." A monk in the resort city of Dalat followed suit the next day. By week's end, nine men and women had died in fiery antigovernment, anti-American protests, leaving notes written in blood-even letters addressed to President Johnson. Replied the President in his Memorial Day address in Arlington (see THE NATION): "This quite unnecessary...
...himself, to perpetrate in language "the gestures of a life that is nothing but itself," was Montale's singular obsession. His entire poetic corpus is a relentless meditation on the mystery of the self, on the continuing conversation of the self and the Other, on the tragic predicament of the self in time. Even on brief vacations from eschatology in lyric gardens where
...Pelican is one of Strindberg's more harrowing achievements. Roughly, the story concerns the tragic changes in a family following the death of the father and the marriage of the daughter. The mother is in love with her newly acquired son-in-law, not realizing that he is interested only in the dead man's estate. These and other conflicts finally lead to a series of catastrophic confrontations in which the family, perhaps aided by the spirit of the dead father, turn against the mother and bring about the destruction of the entire household...
...author of Chinese opera. First came the clanging overture: China's third atomic explosion in 18 months. Next came the dramatic appearance of the star: Chairman Mao Tse-tung turned up in public view for the first time since last November. Finally, there was the tragic-heroic ending: Peking claimed that five American "gangster" jets had shot down a Chinese "training" aircraft well inside the Chinese border, and vowed that "the debt in blood must be cleared." All very melodramatic, but, as with the best of Chinese opera, it was all just a bit hard to believe...
...American Friends Service Committee, which co-sponsored the film with the Harvard Square Theatre, advertised it as "the first feature-length film to show the tragic situation in Vietnam." Because it was made by a Japanese documentary film company, the Friends hoped it would be a non-partisan but critical look at the war. But when the AFSC representatives first saw the film, at the public premiere on Wednesday at 2 p.m., it turned out to have, among other things, a narration in English which might have been written by Hollywood under contract to the U.S. State Department...