Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This reviewer, at least, could not force himself to look upon the various murders, either in their plotted or their consummated aspects, as undesirable, although it was obvious from the shouting and declaiming taking place on the stage that he was intended to consider each of them foolish and tragic...
...frequently seems lost in the part, In her biggest dramatic scenes she turns her role from an illusion to a mass of words by forcing her voice and manner. Miss Cornell's tricks and gestures, effective in other roles, show her in this supreme part as not a great tragic actress after...
...still a few words about Jan Masaryk's death. Nobody can know his state of mind in the minute of suicide and it is improper to give one's own explanation for absolutely certain. It is also improper to try to win some political capital out of this tragic event. It would be far better to be silent and pitiful. But when I hear the Western radio giving its various explanations, I must tell you what is the opinion of many Czechs...
...Minister A. Powell Davies of Washington, D.C., who hailed Jan Masaryk's self-destruction as a hero's act. Wrote he, in the Christian Register: "There was nothing more that he could say in words. There was only one way to give a warning-by a final tragic deed...
...Shakespeare; produced by Theatre, Inc., in association with Brian Doherty), fortunately for the theater, is a great melodrama as well as a great tragedy. For in the theater the great tragedy does not easily stand forth. Shakespeare's high-placed, higher-seeking, larger-than-life criminals cannot seem tragic unless they first seem very grand, and unless Macbeth, at least, comes to seem as much haunted as hounded. Probably few real murderers have looked into such caverns of the imagination as Macbeth; the whole play, indeed, is as suffused with poetry as it is stained with blood...