Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...condemn the tragic lack of foresight of the New Deal administration which has brought out ally China to the brink of disaster. The situation in China is equal in importance to the situation in Western Europe. (2) We favor immediate, adequate economic and military assistance to the legally constituted Chinese government conditioned on strict supervision by American personnel...
Unfortunately, however, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, who wrote, produced, and directed the film, have chosen to alter the usual happy reconciliation of the two lovers to parallel the ballet-plot. The result is a wrenching, brutal, and totally unnecessary tragic ending to a story that contains no other tragic elements...
...Mexico's three current international conferences-on high-frequency radio and plastic surgery1-also watched the comet calmly. But not the third. Declared Wing Chao, president of the International Brotherhood of Magicians: "I graduated as an astrologer in China, and I speak with authority: the most tragic things will happen in Asia and in Europe." Nodded his colleague, Lee Fu: "Things are so bad I dare not speak of them...
...letters to Mrs. Sarah Whitman, with their italics and exclamation points and their second-act curtain speeches, do not seem the love letters of a poet: they are rather the letters of a practical man acting the way he thinks a poet is expected to act. They are neither tragic nor funny; they are too miserable to be tragicomic...
...domination of China with calm, as brought, out in your editorial "Chinese Puzzle" (Nov. 6), appears to be quite practical, but is actually a masterpiece of near-sighteness. That Harry Truman is a follower of this same policy is only another factor that makes his recent victory such a tragic event...