Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tragic to me how many students worry without case about their "genetic loading" for the "biochemical imbalances" that supposedly result in depression. The autosuggestive and "self-fulfilling prophecy" powers of the mind are far more relevant to human suffering than genetics. Bad science can be bad for your mental health...
...Obviously, it's a tragic situation for theyoung man involved, but it seems [fair] to me inlight of the circumstances," Jewett said in aninterview last night...
Shakespeare, in his prescient wisdom, foresaw the discovery of the late twentieth century Harvard paradigm. What is Macbeth if not the tragic embodiment of acute paradigm dysfunction? He fell victim to a bunch of lunatics who shoved their own illusory paradigms up his paradigm vacuum. He had to be told what paradigms to adopt. His fatal paradigm encompassed the plausibility of entire forests moving by themselves. Since Macbeth was the classic tragic hero, he could be cleansed of his false paradigms only in death. We muse that, at the final moment of truth, he ascends to paradigm purification...
...lisp, limp wrists and swishy hips, Diego listens to Maria Callas, reads Cavafy and Walt Whitman and drinks Indian tea from Sevres cups. It seems as if the gay men burst into tears at regular intervals, and Gutierrez Alea can't resist the trap of the gay-man-as-tragic-queen-in-love-with-a-straight-ma n cliche. Frankly, it is difficult to see why Diego is so interested in David, who is terribly callous and in the final analysis, rather boring. However, Jorge Perugorria's sensitive portrayal saves Diego from being a mere caricature, and Perugorria certainly makes...
...Balanchine's motto, "Just do," isn't enough for her. Sean Lavery's pas de deux based on the Romeo and Juliet balcony scene gives her the extra depth she revels in, and her portrayal of Juliet, sketched in just a few minutes, establishes both the modesty and the tragic will of the character. Martins calls her his "little Shakespeare girl." Ringer dances from the heart, and that should serve her well as a dramatic ballerina, a breed of artist that is in short supply these days...