Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kennedy and Kruschev began their celebrated exchange of personal letters on Tuesday, October 23, while Soviet warships continued on course toward Cuba. What might have become a tragic complication evaporated 24 hours later, when the Soviet ships Gagarin and Komiles, accompanied by a submarine, stopped just short of the American blockade. Other ships turned around and headed away from Cuba...
...outraged by the criticism heaped on Israel for its advance into Lebanon [Aug. 23]. Regrettably, civilians have been killed in this tragic war, but the P.L.O. is equally responsible. Its members in a cowardly and calculating way situated themselves in the middle of a large and defenseless civilian population. The P.L.O.'s crimes against innocent people, both Lebanese and Israeli, have been conveniently ignored or forgotten. It is the media's presentation of the war in Lebanon, rather than the war itself, that has clouded Israel's image in the world's eyes...
...bristle with jeopardy. Episodes of scandal, lunacy and mayhem are drawn together by the two main story lines. A romance between Mario, 18, and Julia, 32, is a mock cliffhanger; the rise and fall of Pedro Camacho, a compulsive writer of soap-opera scripts, is a comic tale with tragic relief...
...around, preserving the basic assumption that compromise will produce progress. Informed tinkering would work if circumstances and politicians were not conspiring just now to attack the foundation on which America's education is built. Seeing an institution undercut just as it seems about to attack its problems is doubly tragic; Reagan, it seems, knew just when to bring in the bulldozers...
...goodbyes, collected in To Absent Friends, are enough to make an umpire cry. One of the most poignant was composed for the sportswriter John Lardner: "This is a loss to the living, to every one with a feeling for written English handled with respect and taste and grace, a tragic loss to the world of laughter...