Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their wives clown around on the wall-to-wall carpeting but hear the steady drumming of eternity on the roof. In Pocock pipes of Pan playing tunes of innocence drown out the ravings of a street-corner Jeremiah. With sin and guilt suspended, the book lacks the touch of tragic relief that has made De Vries a top banana of the Calvinist comedy hour...
Westminster's desire for a speedy solution to Ulster's tragic and costly turmoil is reflected in Atkins' ambitious timetable: he plans to meet separately with the four main political parties in the coming weeks, reach a consensus on one of the proposed formulas by September and present a bill to Parliament before the Queen's speech in November. If the Ulster politicians cannot agree, as seems likely, the Thatcher government could submit its own plan to the people in the form of a referendum. That course runs the risk of further underlining the sectarian divisions...
...last two weeks, women have suffered a pair of tragic defeats: the Supreme Court ruled that poor women need not be given money for abortions, and the Republican party platform committee decided to end its 40-year committment to the Equal Rights Amendment. But the struggle to liberate women, and men, and to make the female presence a part of all our history will continue...
...women during their lives. And each struggled with her own creativity in a hostile world. Many are unknown--Petronilla de Meath, for example, burned as a witch in Ireland in the fourteenth century. She symbolizes the persecution of women in medieval times, a persecution more gory but no more tragic than that which exists till this...
...ancient Vedic rites for the dead. Rajiv Gandhi, 35, put the torch to the funeral pyre that held the battered body of his younger brother Sanjay, who had died in an air crash the day before. The ceremony, attended by hundreds of thousands of mourners, brought a sudden and tragic end to the Gandhi family's dynastic hopes that Sanjay, 33, would eventually succeed his mother as Prime Minister of India...