Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...static to suggest history in the making, The Rivalry is fraught with tragic history in the offing-the Civil War. Its great protagonists seem a little like daguerreotypes of themselves, but the issue of right and wrong, which they debated, never fades...
...YOUNG ASSASSINS, by Juan Goytisolo (273 pp.; Knopf; $3.95), describes the half-silly, half-tragic capers of some angry young men who are not sure what they are angry about. Their arena is Madrid. Their indulgent parents are mostly well-to-do and cannot understand why their sons neglect their studies, spend their time with prostitutes and sneer at middle-class comforts. Up to that point, the youngsters described by young (28) Spanish Author Goytisolo have got their kicks from booze, sex and seedy night life. But when Ana, the lone girl in the gang and the only one with...
Although the Greek and Turkish governments have finally found an agreement for Cypriot liberty, many problems still lie ahead. The tragic situation of civil strife, repression and reprisal which as comprised Cypriot life for the past years was the product of several conflicting 'interests, and not all these interest have been reconciled. The British have seen their Cyprus base as necessary to the preservation of their position in the Mediterranean, especially since they were required to leave the Suez canal. The Greek-Turkish proposal does provide that the British can retain their base on the island, and thus English approval...
Doctor Rock was probably intended as a tragic figure; he fails of tragic stature partly because Thomas has made him often willfully nasty, less superhuman than inhuman. The scenes with his pretty young paragon of a wife, which were probably supposed to loosen him up, are a total loss, as the young lady has no qualities except loyalty, humility, and a talent for making her husband talk in passionate puerilities...
Although the prevailing U.S. attitude to Oedipal situations is superficially true to Freud, Dr. May noted an important subsurface difference: it lacks the tragic element that Freud saw in father-son hostility and rivalry...