Word: tragic
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...over a vast field of sun-bleached antelope carcasses as a pair of marauding vultures picks them clean of their meat. During these moments, Lu draws us close to the mountain patrol, sharing in not only their disgust, but also their terror. It’s all the more tragic, then, when Lu argues the poacher’s case with nearly equal force: when Ritai instructs his men to sell some of the confiscated antelope pelts to pay his group’s medical bills, we empathize with the desperation that drives men to compromise their values...
...nuclear enrichtment program and talk of possible U.S. military action in Iran is running high in Washington, the attack appears to be a calculated warning to the U.S. that however bad things are now in Iraq, they could get even worse. And as has so often happened in their tragic history, the Kurds could be the first, though certainly not the only, casualty...
What to do with a tragedy that’s not that tragic? Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of King Richard the Second,” produced by Veronica T. Golin ’07 and Jason M. Lazarcheck ’08, which played at the Ex from April 27 to 29, is the story of a king brought down by his own poor decisions and inattention to important affairs of state. For all his flowery speeches bemoaning his fate and defending the divine right of kings, he comes across as more whiny than righteously...
...Fly’s annual Gatsby party is neither nostalgic nor ironic. Yet to read “Gatsby,” as Mahtani does, as a merely cautionary tale is to miss the genius of the novel. For “Gatsby” acquires its true tragic dimensions not only through its devastating social critique but also through its celebration of the beauty of Gatsby’s dream—its exuberance, its optimism, its irrepressibility—even as it remains ever elusive and unfulfilled. “So we beat on,” Fitzgerald...
...blowing eastward from the test site toward the sparsely populated stretches of Utah and northern Arizona, the Government seemed unconcerned. Radiation sensors were few and often operated improperly. And officials disregarded evidence of potential hazards. Said former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs: "The tragic thing is that all this could have been prevented...