Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Boston. As a division of psychiatry, crisis intervention developed in part from a study in Boston that followed the tragic Cocoanut Grove fire of 1942, in which 492 died. Interested in emotional response to bereavement, a Boston psychiatrist, Dr. Erich Lindemann, questioned relatives of the dead. He found that the human capacity to cope with problems, which is not innate but gained through experience, often falters in a time of crisis, like the sudden loss of a loved...
...finally does, the question that has been forming in your mind--why Shea decided to write about Lermontov and not Pushkin--begins to dissipate. Of course Lermontov is a tinhorn, a two-bit mock-up of Pushkin, a caricature of a radical artist who is grotesque rather than tragic (though, by some trick, he becomes almost tragic in the end). That is precisely the point; Pushkin was above revolution, though he was a friend of revolutionaries. He saw through it. Lermontov was beneath revolution; he was merely bored, dissatisfied with things the way they were for some vague reason...
...PLAYHOUSE (NET, 8-9:30 p.m.). Dorothy Tutin stars as Catherine of Valois, the tragic widow of Henry V and grandmother of Henry VII in "The Queen and the Welshman...
...apotheosis of the Kennedy family has created whole new categories of national history, mythology and gossip. It started with Jack's rise to the presidency, and his death by an assassin's bullet in Dallas. It became even more tragic as Bobby reached for his brother's mantle, only to be cut down himself. It continued with the agonizing trial and conviction of Sirhan Sirhan, Bobby's assassin. It promises to grow with the senatorial prominence and presidential prospects of Ted Kennedy...
...Harry goes on a quest to find an expedient princess. From the marsh he brings back Winnifred the Woebegone--"Fred" to her friends and Carol Burnett on Broadway. Carol Simon puts enough personality and energy into the part that Miss Burnett's absence from Lehman Hall is not tragic...