Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conviction of many of us that the Episcopal Church is in itself only a part of a far greater body of Christians, the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church of Christ. . . . The Catholic Church is not divided but within the Church are tragic schisms...
Theatergoers in Manhattan who saw Olivier as Oedipus last spring knew that he had most of the makings and many of the accomplishments of a great tragic actor. Yet it was still possible to wonder whether he had quite the size of soul and voice and presence to wring the grandest roles dry. If London's generally reliable critics were to be trusted, such doubts were no longer possible. Seldom in a decade has the London Times talked like this...
...grounds that France's Spain was a member of the organization. This latest move of the Security Council represents not only a direct violation of the Un. N. General Assembly agreement which specifically states that the U. N. should have absolutely no dealings with Spain, but is the latest tragic instance of American appeasement of the world's greatest surviving admittedly Fascist power...
Wrote bespectacled, courtly Ernest Betts (Daily Express), who can be as tough as molybdenum: "A great tragic performance. . . . She has an extraordinary range of expression-from bitter sophistication to tragic emotion, and again, to the softest compassion." Chimed the Daily Graphic's Elspeth Grant: "[A] magnificent . . . performance in a specious play. . . ." Wrote George Bishop of the Daily Telegraph: ". . . Magnificent poise ... the dignity of a queen. . . ." The News Chronicle's hard-eyed Alan Dent: "Eileen Herlie's powerful, central and splendid performance makes us long to see her in something saner." The often hard-boiled Noel Coward said...
...clear that beneath his urbanity he was deeply excited by his native land. The excitement is plainest in James's reflections on Richmond, which the aging genius approached with a young attitude: he looked for tragic poetry in the air of the Confederate capital. James's actual impression of Richmond-seen in all its poverty under a dreary winter snowfall- gains great force by contrast...