Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...result, we were able to establish ourselves in our trades, professions and callings with reasonable success. Some of us, but not many, were recalled for service during the Korean War--we were getting a bit too long in the tooth for combat at the time, of the deeply tragic and mistaken enterprise, the war in Vietnam...
...campaign kicked off last month with a series of nationwide "speak-outs" in forums ranging from a Unitarian church in Georgia to the Massachusetts statehouse in Boston. Women and men alike read accounts of the tragic operations that took place before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision. An even greater number, however, read stories about women who had received necessary, beneficial, legal abortions without danger or guilt. A huge speak-out is scheduled for this Tuesday in Washington. From 7 a.m. until midnight, letters and statements will be read in the western plaza...
When double pneumonia put her in intensive care last January and forced the Opera Company of Boston to postpone its season, friends feared that Conductor Sarah Caldwell had reached the tragic finale of a distinguished career. Instead, Caldwell, 61, emerged from the illness this month determined to change her tune and be fitter than a bass fiddle. Her goal: "To lose a zillion pounds and become the thinnest lady conductor--at least in Boston." She has already dropped 70 lbs. (from a reported 250) on a prescribed regimen that includes a 600-calorie-a-day diet and plenty of walking...
...witnesses," he said. "Hope leads us, if we are prepared to trust it, toward what our President Lincoln called 'the better angels of our nature.' And then, rising above all this cruelty, out of this tragic and nightmarish time, beyond the anguish, the pain and suffering, and for all time, we can and must pledge: Never again...
...more often, the author evinces a tragic yearning for days that never were. Her obviously neglectful and self-indulgent mother is made into an art nouveau madonna, complete with aura: "I would drift into . . . the sunlight yellow that surrounded her." Reality is hard to hold; at 17, Gloria finds herself staring hard at visitors, "because if I didn't keep my eyes on them they might all disappear in a puff of the . . . cigarette." She imagines a sofa as "a nest on the topmost branch of a tree where I'm safe and nothing can harm...