Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...give him any information. But, outside of a few invented romantic incidents, 60-year-old Novelist Mikihiko Nagata is pretty confident of his accuracy. In any case, he says, 0-Yuki's is a truly beautiful love story "because, unlike Madame Butterfly, the ending is not tragic...
...more than a year now the U.S. press has been doing a praiseworthy job in bringing the tragic plight of the Navajo Indian to the attention of American readers. TIME'S part in making public this injustice recently produced at our Paris office a U.S. Army sergeant with $77.50 in cash and a request: would we please forward the money to the starving Navajos in New Mexico...
Among the few U.S. novels that did not suffer from paucity of style as well as poverty of theme was Jean Stafford's The Mountain Lion, a funny and tragic little story of children in the West. Another was Bend Sinister, Russian-born Vladimir Nabokov's brilliant nightmare novel of European life at the advent of dictatorship. Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, an ambitious effort to analyze a modern type of disintegrated personality and to make it universal, failed in the second aim; but his descriptions of a Mexican setting were memorable. The finest short stories...
Twenty-three years have passed since Henry S. Hall '19, founded the Club, and, but for some wartime doldrums, they have been eventful, successful years, marred only by one tragic accident last summer when Charles Shiverick II '50 was buried under an avalanche...
...figure who must carry the tragic implications of the play, Mendy Weisgal put an evening of intense effort into the part of Hotspur but gave at best an uneven performance. Weisgal's gestures were artificial, he threw away many of his lines--and much of the motivation of the plot, for those who didn't know it--and added touches of external heightening in places where they destroyed the illusion of the performance. But in certain scenes--the early letter scene, for example--he rose to a distinctly superior level...