Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every summer, Just A Start puts about 100 underprivileged (meaning living below the poverty level) kids to work. Though the youngest is 14 and the oldest 18, their demeanor--their existence--is already a tragic hybrid of childhood and unholy tribulations...
...conflict between two valid and irreconcilable principles was recognized as part of human political life and called tragedy. Nowadays, we act as if every problem had a solution. But appeals to abstract principle, such as the Court uses in its decisions are not they way to resolve a tragic conflict, whose very force derives from the army of principles arrayed on both sides...
Hughes races through the first 18 centuries or so like an inspired Aureliano Babilonia (the famous character from One Hundred Years of Solitude who deciphers the Buendia family history and tragic end). He takes us through the long and often bloody history of class struggle, cataloguing the numerous rebellions and political in-fighting that awkwardly grace the city archives. As is usually the case with these clashes, they are between the haves and the have-nots. And as the for city's demographics attest, Barcelona has long been a haven for the have-nots...
...such a tragic question to have to ask, and I don't know how to answer it so that it doesn't sound trite...
...appearance of agranulocytosis -- marked by a drop in white blood cells -- is always tragic. Some patients, when informed that they must immediately go off clozapine, beg to remain on it rather than descend again into madness. Phil, 36, was awakened by clozapine after 13 years of suffering. Thanks to the drug, he was able to work part time in a grocery store and start up a social life. Then agranulocytosis struck, and he had to be taken off the drug. "He has his voices and moods again," his father reports sadly. "We'll just have to wait for something else...