Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...third evening will be a graphic portrayal of the ill-starred Mexican Expedition, from the beginning to the tragic close, with sketches of a number of the chief actors of the period, including many personal reminiscences of Maximilian and Carlota...
...Zeke" is an admirable bit of description of a tragic incident. It is impossible to bring any charge of diffuseness or lack of clearness against...
...human to make them and therefore natural to contrast the "Acharnians" with the "Oedipus." Whether prejudiced in Harvard's favor or not, I think no one would deny that the "Oedipus" was the much more interesting production. The "Acharnians" lacks that strong human interest which a tragic story has in every age. Personal invective (like the attacks on Lamachus) must lose some point in the lapse of centuries when the attacked person has been well-nigh forgotten, while the sufferings of the Thebauprima are always affecting. Again, the "Acharnians" did not give the spectators that sense of being transported into...
...last concert of the season attracted an unusually large audience to Sanders Theatre last evening to listen to the following programme: Brahms, Tragic Overture; Beethoven, Aria, (Ah Perfido); Gericke, three movements from a serenade for strings; St. Saens, Introduction and Rondo Capriccizo for violin; Gounod, Aria; Masenet, Aria; Beethoven, Allegretto and Allegro from seventh symphony. The soloists were Mme. Fursch-Madi and Mr. Adamowski. Although Mme. Fursch-Madi's voice shows some signs of wear in portions of its compass, she proved herself as true an artist as ever. "Ah Perfido" was given with great dramatic power...
...have for the most part replaced the cruder, if perhaps more thoughtful, essays of a generation ago. In the place of interminable epics and other tedius poems descriptive and hortatory, we have a setting, mercifully a narrow one, of verses expressing the mystic yearnings and sorrows to which the tragic undergraduate heart is prone, about a profusion of gems of the triolet and rondeau order, in fact every sort of "bright conceit in meter," if the Record will pardon our plagiarism. Whether all this is real progress or only growing frivolity is out of our line of enquiry...