Word: tragic
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This, of course, has led to a tragic misreading of the novel...
...Saturday, April 29. 8 p.m. Cabot House Junior Common Room. Tickets available through the Harvard Box Office, (617) 417-8146. $10; $5 students. Moving from the mean streets of New York to the bright lights of Broadway to a more humble stage at Harvard, Leonard Bernstein’s tragic musical “West Side Story” opens this week at Cabot House. Directed by Cabot House Administrator Susan Livingston, the Cabot House Musical is a long-standing tradition with a cast made up mostly of Cabot residents and Quadlings with a few River-dwellers mixed in. Though...
...turn of the century. Written by Federico Garcia Lorca and running in the Loeb Experimental Theater until April 22, the particulars of “Bernarda Alba” are not always perfect. Yet the show succeeds in presenting a drama that is both amusing and deeply tragic through a painfully up-close lens.In portraying women who must battle oppression as well as their own passions, the actors all have outstanding performances. Alexandra C. Palma ’08 is particularly arresting as the matriarch, Bernarda Alba. She gives a nuanced portrayal of a tyrannical, yet vulnerable mother; Palma?...
...display of how such mixed emotions can explode into rage came in 1999 when U.S. Air Force planes that were engaged in an operation in the Balkans destroyed part of China's embassy in Belgrade, killing three Chinese reporters. Despite repeated apologies from Washington for what it dubbed a tragic mistake, the reaction was immediate and violent. Hundreds of thousands of protestors poured into the streets in China's largest cities, burning American flags, throwing stones and torching U.S.-made cars...
...listens, I still find myself asking, “does he mean heaven? hell? Walmart? Do I care?” Finally—and this is what makes Morrissey’s fans so rabid—I begin to realize that I do care. His tragic hero—though it’s unclear if he’s trying to escape his problems or embrace them—is intense and involving in a manner very rare for a rock song.“Dear God Please Help Me,” follows, which...