Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. Arthur Miller's minor-key drama strikes a tragic note as a longshoreman defies family tradition and society's mores because of an incestuous love for his niece...
...VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. Arthur Miller's minor-key drama strikes a tragic note as a longshoreman defies family tradition and society's mores because of an incestuous love for his niece...
...MADRID. Such passionate non-partisans as John Gielgud and Irene Worth supply the commentary for vintage newsreels of Spain's tragic civil war of 1936-39, shaped by French Producer-Director Frederic Rossif into a powerful work...
Less excusable was the orchestra's refusal to play a true pianissimo, depriving Strauss's tragic chord of most of its mystery. And often inflections betrayed caution and over-literalness, such as in the excessively elongated eighths of the horn-calls. Fortunately Don Juan is a rondo, which means that what goes wrong the first time can be corrected the next: The intonation of the violins and the precision of the brasses both improved rapidly...
...today's literature there are few "great deaths." Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, Conrad gave death a tragic dimension. Hemingway was among the last to try; his heroes died stoically, with style, like matadors. Nowadays, death tends to be presented as a banal accident in an indifferent universe. Much of the Theater of the Absurd ridicules both death and modern man's inability to cope with it. In lonesco's Amedee, or How to Get Rid of It, the plot concerns a corpse that grows and grows until it floats away in the shape of a balloon-a balloon...