Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shoeshine. A beautiful and tragic film about two Roman street boys (TIME, Sept...
Last week Communist action in Czechoslovakia clicked into the same tragic, repetitive pattern the world had seen in Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania. It began to unfold a fortnight ago when bombs, disguised as perfume boxes, were mailed to Czechoslovakia's Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, currently his country's U.N. delegate, to President Eduard Benes and others. Curiously enough, the bombs were intercepted without so much as a pop. Communists claimed that Benes and Masaryk had mailed the bombs to themselves. Others shrugged them off as a crank's prank...
Shoeshine. A beautiful and tragic film about two Roman street boys (TIME, Sept...
Shoeshine. A beautiful, tragic film about Roman street boys (TIME, Sept...
...critic has found his preoccupations morbid. The stories assembled in this volume, and the longer novels, Victory, Nostromo and Under Western Eyes, make both these accusations seem as irrelevant as the "dating" of Conrad's work. Neither time nor fashion really affects its nature, which is Sophoclean and tragic: "The plight of the man on whom life closes down...