Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Congratulations and Condolences. Like instant coffee, instant history can be remarkably palatable. Goldman's pronouncements about Johnson (that he was a tragic failure, "an extraordinarily gifted President who was the wrong man from the wrong place at the wrong time under the wrong circumstances") may suffer from myopia, but his book is stuffed with tangy anecdotes. Most of them hardly come out sounding like Hail to the Chief; yet they shade and amplify Johnson's enigmatic image in ways alternately provoking and satisfying...
...PLAY begins with a soliloquy by Saul, which is unfortunate, for Woods seems unable to shed his self-consciousness when on the stage alone. But as soon as the other characters arrive and give his speeches direction, Saul becomes a convincingly tragic figure...
...When I returned to Washington on the tragic night of November 22, 1963, the agenda I found waiting for me as a new President was not greatly changed from the agenda which had faced the American people and their government a quarter century earlier when I arrived at the Capitol as a newly elected member of Congress." That's the first sentence in the book. It is a little frightening. (One imagines LBJ at the first meeting of his Cabinet saying, "Now there's one little item I'd like to bring up. It's a project that's been...
...letters-some silly, some tragic-come into the Berkeley Barb, East Village Other, Los Angeles Free Press or any of 15 underground newspapers in the U.S. and abroad. Their language is raw, often misspelled, jangling with obscenities. A few are transparent put-ons. Most, though, are hippies' cries for help on medical matters. Dropping out of "straight" society provides no immunity to mankind's injuries and germs. Like everyone else, the members of the long-haired generation are often ignorant and afraid...
...Navy investigation revealed that "one of the diving rigs in use by Sealab divers was equipped with an empty Bar-alyme canister." Without the Baralyme, which absorbs carbon dioxide exhaled by the diver, the gas builds up in the system and can eventually cause suffocation. "This could explain the tragic event," said a Navy spokesman, and indeed, an autopsy revealed "a greatly excessive" amount of carbon dioxide in Cannon's blood. Navy officials ordered a halt to all diving. Sealab 3, still leaking helium, was brought to the surface and lifted onto a barge to be taken ashore...