Word: tragic
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...continued. Each term some students would "break down" for no apparent reason. The Dean's office would be overcrowded with men whose delinquencies were the despair of their professors. Too many students, hand-picked for scholarship, failed through some hidden cause no physical examination could uncover. Once in a tragic while a student crime brought publicity of an unwelcome kind and awakened in the public mind a distrust of all colleges...
...clearing up of what look like simple troubles before they have had a chance to get complicated," said Dr. Ruggles. "We want to teach the ways and the habits of mental and emotional health. If we can do that we may be able to prevent that most tragic waste; the breakdown of a finely trained mind...
Jones explores Henry's life from every possible angle, restlessly following minor characters through love stories, comedies and epic quests, skipping across decades of time and continents of space--The Known World is a glorious, enthralling, tangled root ball of a book--but always returning to the story's tragic core. Slowly, terrifyingly, it dawns on us that although Henry has his free papers, he's the product of an evil world, and his soul will never be free. When it was published last summer, Jones' book seemed like a very mature first novel. With the benefit of eight months...
...tragic that in exercising their right to vote, the Spaniards have given new life to a monster [March 29]. The terrorists have the skill to pervert free speech and democracy for their own aims--proof again that we must never underestimate them. DUNCAN RUSSELL Greensboro...
...cast ballots against those who would pass a federal amendment banning gay marriage, just as I would against those who think an S/M workshop is A-OK—but whatever someone’s personal misgivings about the issue is besides the point. Rather, what’s tragic about the gay rights fight in the Capitol and the “gay rights” fight at Harvard is that they so often resemble two ships passing in the night...