Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the present war will have been worth all its tragic cost if the new society which the Church of England is advising be formed. Your account in TIME was excellent...
...Wake, the death of Joyce meant merely that the "cult of unintelligibility" had lost its chief prophet. To his admirers, it meant the loss of the greatest figure in European letters since Marcel Proust. To his friends Joyce's death seemed like some simple lapse in nature, grandly tragic and fitting. Joyce's writings had been the most massive, inclusive, eloquent statement of Europe's intellectual and moral chaos, a chaos now audible and visible in the falling walls of Europe's cities. And Joyce had died in the midst of this downfall-perhaps because...
...always seemed to me that the best outcome for the first World War would have been the "peace without victory" which President Wilson sought to secure in 1916; and it has always seemed to me that the most tragic aspect of the whole episode was the manner in which the United States disqualified itself, in the early war years, for working to such an end. But after 1916 and especially after the American declaration of war, such an outcome was no longer possible. It would have been patently idle to work for it in 1918; and in the same...
Like millions of other drunk or sober, unconcerned or troubled U. S. citizens, Franklin Roosevelt stayed up on New Year's Eve to see a tragic old year out, a new year in. At midnight, to his wife, his mother and a few close friends, the President proposed a toast: "To the United States of America...
...sound unlucky," stated Minister Matsuoka, "but in my innermost heart I fear the coming year will prove a most tragic and unfortunate one for all mankind. I pray that God and all God-fearing people will cooperate with me in saving 1941 from being the first year of the decline and fall of modern civilization...