Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York, where the great majority of lower-middle-class students shun protest and still believe in education as salvation -the key to affluence. Unfortunately, those yearnings have all but started a race war between some of C.C.N.Y.'s black and white students, a war that may have tragic significance for other public colleges across the U.S. The situation grew so bad last week that C.C.N.Y. President Buell G. Gallagher resigned...
...When a tragic hero is blinded, he assumes the grandeur of Oedipus; when a comic hero is blinded, he becomes as ludicrous as a mole. Moliere, the most serious writer of comedy who ever lived, took just such a blind mole and made him the mock hero of The Miser. Harpagon (Robert Symonds) has a singular obsession-money. Like most obsessions, it is not magnificent but malignant. It allows the great 17th century French dramatist to make a central moral point-that a sin is called deadly because it deadens. Harpagon is blind to his children's hope...
...which the black student community had thoughtfully worked with interested senior members of the faculty. Faculty members of the Committee previously established to deal wit Afro-American Studies spoke for the motion. It was pointed out that the crisis of confidence had arisen in good part because, by a tragic mistake, the committee had forgotten to keep the bargain to consult the black students before the announcement of the Afro-American Program courses for next year went to press...
...whole new menagerie has evolved at Penn, though the evolution was compressed into about five years. And this year, the Crimson did no better than break even with the Quakers. Most of the Penn victories were tragic, even humiliating...
Arthur Fidelman-half tragic hero, half Yiddish joke-has ranked among Malamud's finest double characters since he began to appear over a decade ago in assorted short stories. Now Malamud presents him in a brilliant full-length exercise in slapstick Angst...