Word: tragic
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...This tragic episode causes Mansfield to wonder whether manliness is, ultimately, only valuable as an antidote to the problems that it creates. This is a philosophical conundrum for which Mansfield does not seem to have a clear answer. He recommends that manliness be given “employment” in productive human enterprise so that its destructive impulses are curtailed, but he cannot imagine a solution to the problem of excessive or misdirected manliness...
...film really centers on Aniston’s character, Olivia, and her attempt to get her life back in order. Aniston, as a pothead who is hung up on her last boyfriend, lacks motivation, and steals wrinkle-reducing cream, is simultaneously hilarious, tragic, and completely relatable. This side of the former “Friend” is better even than the quirky losers she played in “Office Space” and “The Good Girl...
...True to the dogma of communism, the regime is making incessant efforts to clamp down on websites and blogs, hoping that dissent will not burst into a wildfire. When the demonstrations get ugly, the government may opt for bloody suppression and further fuel the people's outrage, leading to tragic anarchy. For the sake of the future of more than 1 billion people, let's hope that Beijing finds an amicable solution to the farmers' grievances. Venn Tzu Singapore...
Brilliant, brooding, fatally naive--J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the tragic figures of mid-20th century America. It was he who led the team at Los Alamos, N.M., that developed the first atom bomb. But after World War II he became an outspoken opponent of developing the even more powerful hydrogen bomb. That stance brought him the powerful enemies who would conspire to have him stripped of his security clearance and publicly humiliated. This biography is masterful, lucid and balanced, always mindful of Oppenheimer's role in his downfall--even at Los Alamos he was frequently surrounded by former...
...True to the dogma of communism, the regime is making incessant efforts to clamp down on websites and blogs, hoping that dissent will not burst into a wildfire. When the demonstrations get ugly, the government may opt for bloody suppression and further fuel the people's outrage, leading to tragic anarchy. For the sake of the future of more than 1 billion people, let's hope Beijing finds an amicable solution to the farmers' grievances. Venn Tzu Singapore time's reporting proves that the Chinese farmers are afraid. Their protests are peaceful, but they are still beaten and killed...