Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relay isn't what's wrong, although that's what the figures seem to say," remarked Gordon. Just where the tragic flaw fell thrice, however, he refused to state, considering such information of tactical importance. Other channels, nevertheless, report of a very weak breast-stroking staff...
...Lewis would speak to them at U.M.W.'s massive headquarters (once the University Club) on 18th Street. The meeting was in the basement auditorium, the walls of which are covered with Lewis cartoons. There, in a brutal "trial," Lewis had booted out of his union a quavering and tragic Phil Murray, until then Lewis' steadfast friend. Now Lewis had no friends around him, only sycophants. He had few friends anywhere, only worshipers or enemies. He had maintained his authority with his goon squads. He was the king. There was no heir apparent; he had let no one rise...
...Mclntosh is a youthful woman with bobbed, reddish-gold hair and a set of firm opinions. A basic one: it is "tragic" that so many educated women "settle down into domesticity and never raise a peep again." Mrs. Mclntosh speaks on this subject with impressive authority. Educated at Bryn Mawr, Johns Hopkins and Cambridge, she began to teach in 1922, married ten years later. Now the mother of five children, she has done an unruffled job of juggling career and family...
Last week's production was frequently sharp theater, but was thrown badly off center by Actor Jory's failure to make Borkman either the dominating or the large-dimensioned figure he should be. His Borkman was much too hollowly histrionic, too ostentatiously "tragic." It was Eva Le Gallienne and Margaret Webster, as the two sisters, who did most to pace the play...
...would be tragic, indeed, if another period of spiritual bankruptcy were to be foisted upon the United States and the world. What is called for is a 'tough-minded idealism,' to borrow Mr. Conant's phrase, that will utilize the moral and idealistic energy generated during the war for peacetime social goals, that will establish practical aims for common action. "Tough-minded idealists" are needed to lead and implement such a program. Only thus may this country preserve its moral leader shop among nations and continue to lead the way to peace and well-being...