Word: tragic
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Many, especially in the press, apparently feel sympathy for Hillary. She has been heralded as a tragic martyr, a victim of scandal. It is argued that she may be trapped in her marriage, that she sticks around out of duty to the country. Unfortunately, according to most sources, Bill has been consistently straying since their law school days. A more likely explanation for her current calculus, and her calculus all along, may be that she is simply unwilling to give up the fruits of her association with her husband. After all, the White House is a nice place to live...
Oddly enough, Gluck maintains a cool, stony voice throughout--despite her pluralistic embraces. She recalls antiquity, speaking through Aeneas, Eurydice and Orpheus in various poems, yet her usage encloses the most tragic scenes in a modern living room. She retells: "In the end, Dido/summoned her ladies in waiting/that they might see/the harsh destiny inscribed for her by the fates." The phrase "In the end" dooms the stanza to almost blase speech, which is almost bucked by the phrase "that they might," until the stanza ends with the prepositional pile-up "inscribed for her by the fates." Flat language and idioms...
...There was one tragic night--but it was also very cold, and Heinrich's fingers are very sensitive...
...eternally renewable the role has proved to be. Lee J. Cobb created the 63-year-old Willy when he was just in his 30s. Miller hated Fredric March's interpretation in the 1951 movie (he turned Willy into "a psycho," Miller felt), yet March gave the character both a tragic grandeur and a Rotarian recognizability that are unforgettable. There have been black Willy Lomans and Chinese Willy Lomans; big, bearish Willys like George C. Scott and feisty, bantamweight Willys like Dustin Hoffman. Brian Dennehy, in the new production from Chicago's Goodman Theatre that opens (with some minor cast changes...
...people we meet now could be our best shots at true happiness. If, because for four years you were too lazy to attend to your studies, you were rejected from every medical school you applied to, would you call it a "learning experience?" No, you'd call it a tragic mistake with potentially catastrophic consequences for the rest of your life. If, especially at this young age, you've found one of the greats, don't let that wonderful, pristine coincidence fall victim to your immaturity, your preoccupation with school or any other happenstance of your stage in life...