Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...critical evaluation of The Macomber Affair [TIME, April 7], the Cinema editor evidently failed to read the original story very closely. States the editor: "According to Hemingway, [Mrs. Macomber] shoots [her husband] deliberately. ... In the movie, it was just a tragic accident-and the audience is left to make up its own mind." Writes the author: "Mrs. Macomber . . . had shot at the buffalo . . . and had hit her husband...
...Vienna, where they don't care for machines anyway, the Socialist Arbeiterzeitung declared: "His creation, the production line . . . reminds us of Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times, which showed the ridiculous and tragic power of Fordismus over man. . . . Thus Ford was not a friend but an enemy of the worker...
Such goings-on are no rarity in Chile, insists Señorita Bombal, where "everyone has a great drama in his life. Chileans are always committing suicide-men for lack of money, women for want of love. In fact, suicide is not considered a very tragic death. It is much worse to be killed in an automobile accident. Suicide is like dying of appendicitis...
That national state of mind which permits itself the luxury of diversion from insistence upon peace assumes its full tragic character on the second anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt's death. For the magic of FDR's leadership lay in his ability to rally the best instincts of determination in America's people and direct them to the cause at hand. World order was his surpassing cause. Today the structure he envisioned has not been realized: yet is is only our failing in Will, and the absence of this personality, which prevents us from meeting our crisis four-square...
...tale, one of Wainhouse's characters, "faintly aware of some unbalance or maladjustment or something or other, tries very hard and with mighty sincerity to understand; he feels as if he should be compelled by all this display to know something; is all this some esoteric concert, some tragic sequence?" This passage sums up the reader's feelings perfectly. After wading through a series of nauseating images such as a basement where "guts ran knee deep," and after watching a woman 'who likes to be beaten up in bed and two men who achieve this for her wander through...