Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, since Chiang Kai-shek's tragic defeat, the U.S. has not exactly tried to ignore Red China-certainly the Korean war bitterly acknowledged its existence-but to ostracize and isolate it. Perhaps there was no real alternative, but the fact is that this attitude is getting to be increasingly difficult to sustain. China today is by far the most serious, urgent foreign-policy problem facing the U.S. Its presence looms over all Asia. There is, in the Far East, no area of prosperity that is not menaced, no conflict that is not affected or even instigated...
...Walter Jenkins case [Oct. 30], aside from being a personal and national tragedy, also shows a tragic side of our society. Homosexuality is cloaked in some of the most deluded ideas of our "enlightened" times. We treat it as men treated certain sicknesses in medieval times. We ignore information that has been provided by Kinsey and others and go blundering down the same old trails of judgment and excuse. Aside from the legal aspect, a Christian organization like the Y.M.C.A. has no business making a final judgment on a man's life. We are presently involved in a search...
...Walter Jenkins case [Oct. 30], aside from being a personal and national tragedy, also shows a tragic side of our society. Homosexuality is cloaked in some of the most deluded ideas of our "enlightened" times. We treat it as men treated certain sicknesses in medieval times. We ignore information that has been provided by Kinsey and others and go blundering down the same old trails of judgment and excuse. Aside from the legal aspect, a Christian organization like the Y.M.C.A. has no business making a final judgment on a man's life. We are presently involved in a search...
Departing from his prepared text, Johnson recalled in somber tones that he had taken the oath of office "11 months and three days ago on that tragic day. November 22, amid the roar of the jet planes" and that he "attempted to pick up where my beloved benefactor and friend had left...
...pattern his life after Christ's, an ambition that some Swedish critics of Markings chose to interpret as blasphemy or egomania; yet if Markings makes anything clear, it is that Hammarskjöld was a truly humble man: "How far from both muscular heroism and from the soulfully tragic spirit of unselfishness, which unctuously adds its little offering to the spongecake at a kaffeeklatsch, is the plain and simple fact that a man has given himself completely to something he finds worth living...