Word: tragic
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These are the Palestinians: nearly 4 million Arabs, the majority living in exile, who claim as their birthright both the land of Israel and the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza. The quarrel between the Israelis and Palestinians involves a tragic, seemingly irreconcilable conflict of competing nationalisms. The Jewish claim to most of this same area is also justified by historic and religious roots...
FROM WILLIAM FAULKNER to Harold Robbins, interracial sex has ignited the imaginations of American writers. The most popular of these works dealing with sex between Blacks and whites share a similar protagonist, usually a physically powerful but intellectually deprived Black man, who comes to a tragic end as the Victim of Society, headed for the electric chair or castration by a lynch mob for the alleged rape of a precious white girl...
...Connor's comi-tragic novella concerns one Hazel Motes, the son of a preacher, a young, little-educated Southerner confused about religion. Haze is a preacher, too, but not of any church of Christ. In a South obsessed with Jesus--JESUS SAVES smothers him in neon and print--he tries to rebel by founding his own Church Without Christ and immersing himself in sin. His is a church where "the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way." He is humorless in a crazy world, aiming with violent integrity to keep...
...return from the Olympics that Americans had over-emphasized Hitler's refusal to shake his hand. After all, he added, in his own country Owens had to sit in the back of the bus. Ultimately, he said he was not considered an American athlete but a Black person. Owens' tragic death from lung cancer comes at a particular touchy time for the United States as president Carter and the Olympic Committee debate whether the country should enter the games scheduled for Moscow this summer...
...rest is just bits and pieces. All this leaves a sizable hole in the middle of the picture. If you do not fairly represent an artist's gifts his reason for living, what is the point of detaining the audience with the ordinariness of his everyday life? Tragic as his problems finally became, they could have happened to anybody, where as a Nijinsky happens perhaps once in a century. It is a shame not to concentrate on what was unique about his genius...