Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Menthon, the 20 Boches in the dock were not the only guilty ones. The entire German people was to blame, he declared, for Naziism merely had exploited their "power of latent barbarism . . . one of the deepest and most tragic facets of the German soul. . . . Certain of their eternal and deep-seated aspirations have found monstrous expressions under the Hitler regime; their entire responsibility is involved. . . . Their re-education is indispensable...
...roots of Existentialism go back 100 years to Sören Kierkegaard, the lonely Danish theologian and rebel who was obsessed by the one tragic question: how is human existence possible? In the face of the 19th Century's positivism which arrogantly asserted the triumph of man, Kierkegaard threw his tragic answer: man exists simultaneously on two irreconcilable planes, in time and in eternity. So man lives in insoluble tension ; in time he exists not as an individual but only as an irrelevant member of a species; in eternity it is only the individual who exists, without society...
...Willard Van Dyke's tragic study of technological unemployment, Valley Town...
...title: Bird the First, King of the Sons of the Eagle) received the news with hardly a quiver of his finely pointed mustache, issued a routine protest: "The King cannot consider these elections [establishing the new regime] as free. It would have been our desire, after this long and tragic period, that the people of the country should be free to re-establish the situation as they wanted...
There is a category of news which can be called significant trivia. It is not world shaking. It can be amusing, sad, tragic, inspiring, or downright funny, but it is revealing. It is generally about people. Sometimes it makes headlines, but more often it is buried in the back pages of a local newspaper. TIME likes to report incidents like these because they illuminate-sometimes more brightly than a major news story-the kind of world we live in and the kind of people who make the world what it is. Some examples from TIME...