Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opera's great characterizations as the lecherous old swindler in RCA Victor's Falstaff, amply supported by the other singers and by Conductor Georg Solti. In Rigoletto (Deutsche Grammophon), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. best known for his sorrowful lieder. proves himself equally expressive as the tragic hunchback in a powerful performance led by Rafael Kubelik...
...surgeon in training who has had experience with medical missions, I could not help wincing as I read the gruesome, gory details of the Congo massacre [Dec. 4]. Dr. Paul Carlson's death is immeasurably tragic. But we know this won't discourage others in our profession from making humanitarian missions to people who need our help very badly, like the Africans whom we should pity more than loathe for that barbaric deed...
Carlson's murder, along with the massacre of perhaps another hundred whites and thousands of blacks, had a special, tragic meaning...
Grieved by the tragic assassination of John F. Kennedy of the Class of 1940, President of the United States, the Board wishes to place in its record for future generations of the Board this expression of sorrow and affection for its former colleague...
...Greek thinker Heraclitus, whose extant work consists only of brief fragments declaring cryptically that the universe is in flux, that life is a ceaseless struggle of opposites: fire and water, earth and spirit, love and hate. Fowles shares Heraclitus' reverence for life, his clear-eyed contemplation of the tragic, his love of paradox; and he is even more eloquent...