Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ralph: Poor Stanley. He'll have to do some remedial reading of the revolutionary texts. Didn't Alex Comfort tell us in More Joy of Sex that "hot sex" with its "tragic intensities" was far inferior to cool, unemotional...
...constitutes a worthwhile job in new ways. That is, in part, because more than a generation ago Arthur Miller invented an American dreamer named Willy Loman, put him in a play called Death of a Salesman, and invited us to watch him and his false, almost comic, near-to-tragic dream unravel...
...Obviously the morale of the House is not very high after something like this," said Adams House Senior Tutor Marshall Hyatt "It's tragic...
...credibility of this tragic saga resides largely within the yawning disparity between its protagonists' ideals and the un-rosy urban reality with which Americans are only too familiar. While watching Enrique and Rosa crawl for miles through a tunnel to reach America, the viewer cannot help but shake his head over their delight upon spotting the light at the end. The odds are stacked miserably against them; but unaware of this fact, the two march almost inexorably toward despair...
...figure who would encapsulate the Edwardian age's anguish over the way the virtues of the primitive life were being trampled by the irresistible march of industrialism and imperialism. It is this figure that Hugh Hudson, director of Chariots of Fire, has sought to restore, on a near tragic scale...