Word: tragic
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...minute suggesting that UHS does not face serious questions of allocation of personnel. However, pregnancy is a very serious matter. For the student, it is inconvenient at best, and potentially tragic that the University is responding so sluggishly to the need for adequate contraceptive care. If delays of the sort cited here are oversights, they should be corrected: If they reflect a policy decision by UHS, that decision should be publicly discussed. Yet it seems clear that this chronic underservice is unacceptable. The University cannot force students to be sexually responsible, yet it can do whatever possible to aid those...
...dragon." Although Fallaci's junta villains are as gross as editorial cartoons, it is difficult to separate dragon, windmills and Quixote. For throughout this catalogue of misery, Fallaci never makes the right choice. When the account needs historical analysis she offers tantrums; when suffering cries out for a tragic spirit she substitutes bathos...
...virgin territory, of messing it up, and having gone as far as one can go, of having nowhere to turn but back. As Kevin Starr pointed out in his Americans and the California Dream, California has always stood for something mystical in American life; it has not suffered the tragic historical burdens of the East and South, and it has seemed determined to make itself as much a folk tale as a habitat. But just as it has always insisted on its eternal newness and promise, it has also represented the dead end of the New World...
...Prime Minister Ohira in Japan; the Shah in Egypt; and Tito, who one thought would live forever. In the background, like presiding ghosts, the hostages in Iran serve as emblems of national impotence; Walter Cronkite's counting of the days growing weary and meaningless among Milquetoast threats and a tragic rescue fiasco. As if to sustain the world's heartache, the year heads toward Christmas with the killing of a Beatle...
...outgoing Carter Administration looked back over more than a year of frustrated efforts to free the Americans, some of its members privately voiced hindsight regrets. One high-level insider now thinks that an early show of military force, along the lines of the belated airborne assault that ended in tragic failure, might have been a smart tactic. But Carter still argues that a hasty plan, which could have ended in the death of some or all of the hostages, would have been far worse than the prolonged imprisonment. Nor does Carter subscribe to the argument of some that in effect...