Word: tragic
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...fall evening in 1977, Tom Callahan, then a newspaper columnist with the Cincinnati Enquirer, was covering the fatal plane crash of the University of Evansville (Indiana) basketball team. Surveying the tragic scene where all the players and their coach died, he found himself looking at his assignment a bit differently from most of the reporters there, who were concentrating on straightforward news accounts of the disaster. Callahan was drawn to the quiet ironies, the little images that told the story behind the story: the neatly piled clothes that had fallen out of a suitcase, the bottle of after-shave lotion...
...accumulation of such ironies, so meaningful to the native son, that makes this beautiful and tragic and bewitched state unique. It is no accident that Mississippi elicits such rage and passion and fidelity in its sons and daughters of both races, or that Northerners have always been obsessed with what takes place here, for Mississippi has always been the crucible of the national guilt. Much remains to be accomplished, although there is a tolerance of independent expression in Mississippi now that does its own deepest traditions proud. With the flourishing of that tolerance, the young whites and blacks...
...been, nor will ever be the irreproachable, perfectly moral state some of its supporters would like to see. Israelis are, after all, only human. Still, one pedestal the Jewish state can stand on--and stand on alone in the Middle East--is that of a democracy. Yes, there are tragic excesses in the occupied territories. True, the invasion of Lebanon claimed many innocent lives. The fact remains, though, that Israelis question themselves and their government openly and honestly. Eventually, as in other democracies, those responsible for wrongdoing are held accountable...
Thank you for the brief history of the tragic Armenian-Turkish conflict of World War I [Aug. 23]. Articles like yours help people understand why the Armenians are resorting to violence. If the world had listened years ago instead of turning a deaf ear to the cries of the surviving Armenians, there would be no need for terrorist acts...
...Ottoman Empire prior to and during World War I. The Armenians, supported by the Russians, resisted the Constantinople government and went so far as to displace other ethnic groups from the traditional Armenian homelands, murdering indiscriminately. Nobody can deny that the results of Talaat Pasha's orders were tragic. However, the events that occurred more than 60 years ago, under the aegis of the Ottomans, should not be avenged today. Turkey has long since put behind her the evils of her empire. Terrorist acts will not undo what was done, nor will they result in an independent state...