Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Flight), Director Paolo Spinola brings off one unabashedly lesbian love scene, but mostly his camera composes a critical essay on wealth, boredom, lovers, luxury flats, all the icons of fashionable corruption that Italian moviemakers love to hate. The rest of the movie is so elliptical that Giovanna's "tragic death," presumably by suicide, is never explained, and cues the physicist to recall more of her unhappy history in flashbacks pressed from a charred diary. Sad to say, the dead wife's darker secrets turn out to be less interesting, after all, than some of the projects under...
...children's childhood is being snatched from them by greedy adults [March 11]. We have endured the pre-teen-bra era and the pre-teen coketail party. Now we are faced with children aping the sad folksinger types. How tragic that the "nubes" wail of lost loves before the age of ten! If we lower the level of disturbance much more, prenatal psychiatrists will be needed...
...Through a tragic error," ruled Judge Richard S. Heller for the New York Court of Claims last week, Prisoner Dennison was wrongly classified as a low-grade moron in 1927, declared criminally insane in 1936, and illegally confined without judicial review in a state asylum until 1960, when his half brother finally managed to win his release on a writ of habeas corpus. "Society labeled him as subhuman," declared Judge Heller, "placed him in a cage with genuine subhumans, drove him insane, and then used the insanity as an excuse for holding him indefinitely in an institution with...
...puritanism and materialism of America. The modern spirit was a combination of certain intellectual qualities inherited from the Enlightenment: lucidity, irony, skepticism, intellectual curiosity, combined with the impassioned intensity and enhanced sensibility of the Romantics, their rebellion and sense of technical experiment, their awareness of living in a tragic age. The generation which reconciled these opposites was that of Baudelaire, Flaubert and Dostoevsky, of Whitman, Melville and Ruskin, of Edmond de Goncourt and Matthew Arnold, to which one might add Renan and Turgenev ... all these artists reach...
...nature of war across a wildly rugged, often inaccessible countryside, no shield can ever be impregnable everywhere, as the tragic fate of a Vietnamese compound called A Shau demonstrated last week...