Word: tragical
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Sarah Clark is outstanding in her interpretation of the evil and tragic wife. This character develops brilliantly as the father's most terrible enemy and at the same time his closest, most longed after source of love. She is a woman driven by instinct rather than plan. Miss Clark is outstanding not in her portrayal of an absolute evil, but in her ability to refocus the attention of the audience through her weaknesses on the father as the prime source of his own downfall...
QUESTION THE USE OF POLICE FORCE TO SUPPRESS STUDENT PROTEST ACTION AT HARVARD. YOUR ACTION SIMILAR TO TRAGIC MISTAKE MADE AT COLUMBIA BY PRESIDENT KIRK. YOUR INFLEXIBLE POSITION TOWARD NECESSARY REFORM A DISCREADIT TO HARVARD IN EYES OF NATION AND WORLD YOUR RESIGNATION IN BEST INTEREST OF RECONSTRUCTION AND REFORM AT HARVARD. IMMEDIATE STEPS SHOULD BE TAKEN TO INCLUDE STUDENTS IN MAKING POLICY AS I RECOMMENDED IN FEBRUARY 24 ALUMNI BULLETIN. RAPIDITY OF POLICE ACTION INDICATES THAT POLICY OF REPRESSION WAS DELIBERATE. ELIOT H. STANLEY '63 WASHINGTON...
...worst modern vices (materialism, pragmatism, relativism) may be traced to the works and influence of the heretical English monk Pelagius, who denied original sin and, 1,500 years before Marx-or Harold Wilson-taught that human perfection was obtainable by civic means. There is an opposite, more severe, tragic tradition that he identifies with the moral absolutism of Saint Augustine. One or other of these disparate attitudes may be detected by Burgess in almost any important English literary works. Such rigorous philosophical dogma, inherited from a Catholic education, is unexpected in English criticism, which is not normally ideological although...
Because of all Lear's hang-ups, he could be called a truly modern figure for his sense of the precarious and tragic in human life. His nonsense verses, always catchy, should acquire renewed relevance today. They were the obverse of the solid moral copper coins given to good little Victorian children by the avuncular Establishment. His characters, like the "Old Person of Cadiz" or "Young Lady of Clare," are rarely righteous, and when they do practice virtue, it often goes refreshingly unrewarded. One thing this age will never really understand about Lear: his penchant for the nonporno limerick...
...named Bogdan Stashinsky was sent to murder Ukrainian Exile Leader Stepan Bandera and Lev Rebet, the editor of an anti-Soviet newspaper. Using a cyanide pistol, Stashinsky was successful in both cases. Hired killers are not among the world's most attractive people. Yet Stashinsky emerges as a tragic figure. A brilliant young scholar, he was blackmailed into murder by the KGB. Later, driven by conscience, he turned himself in to the Allies...