Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...news that flashed from Belgium on Feb. 15, 1961, was tragic: "A Sabena Airlines Boeing 707 crashed near the Brussels Airport early today, killing 73 persons, including the 18 members of the United States figure-skating team." The news from Davos, Switzerland, last week still echoed that grim day. Scotty Allen, the U.S.'s No. 1 male skater, finished fourth at the 1966 world championships. The top American pair wound up third, the best U.S. dance team placed second behind a couple of Britons. Bad news indeed for a nation that had won 21 world figure-skating championships...
...Sale's crimson novel about the Hollywood prize scramble into a vatful of whitewash. The book described a rat race in which the victors were merely the best of breed. The movie describes a demiparadise besmirched by Stephen Boyd as a vicious nominee ("That rot inside" is his tragic flaw) who forgets that truth and beauty are the Only Real Rewards...
...that tragic and fateful...
...symphony, which had its premiere in Paris in 1932 and in the U.S. only last month. Like his more prolific friend and fellow Yankee, the late Charles Ives, Ruggles writes dissonant but cogent and original music. Sun Treader is a sober, seamless, one-movement tribute to a tragic hero, for thus Browning addressed Shelley eleven years after he was drowned ("Sun-treader, life and light be thine forever!"). Performed by the Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Zoltan Rozsnyai conducting...
...family finally sells the house, which the maids have started to tear apart. By this time, however, the girls have become hopeless psychopaths and proceed to murder their mistress and her lesbian daughter. The man who has just bought the house accuses the father of causing the tragic result. I, for one, can't figure out how he, as a newcomer on the scene, can make such an accusation. Papatakis presents these events with an absolute minimum of sentimentality; it's just the ugly, brutal story, starkly told, designed to make us shiver...