Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suggest for your 1968 Man of the Year a man who while he lived did more to bring men together peacefully than most of us thought possible, and who, after his tragic death, provides those of us who believed in him with the inspiration to carry on his dream: Dr. Martin Luther King...
...served long enough as a psychiatric aide to become vocationally confused about his main role as a journeyman novelist. Brand's raw material- case histories detailing the unorthodox treatment of psychotics in the late 1940s- obsesses him at the expense of his craft. Anything approaching the tragic finally escapes him, but in this best-selling novel, by sheer plodding persistence, Brand compels the reader to bear witness with him to the involuted agonies of shipwrecked minds...
...half in its wording; yet it could have been clarified and improved if the Faculty had been able to hold a normal meeting, just as we could have discussed the holding of open meetings if the sit-in had not prejudged the issue. In coming days, it would be tragic if Faculty indignation became a pretext for dodging the two serious issues of ROTC and of the students' role in the process of decision. But if the Faculty returns to those issues, it will be despite the sit-in, not because of it. This is the difference with last year...
...text to notes of various vertical distances above and below a reference line. The work, described as "savage" in the program notes but bordering on melodrama, describes Schoenberg's raging desperateness as the Jews flee Nazist Warsaw, and his resumption of the Jewish faith in the face of this tragic modern Diaspora. This profound personal utterance seems to suffer from the same type of self-consciously tortured text which reduced Bernstein's Kaddish symphony to almost complete rhetorical vacuousness. The performance was frenetic rather than impassioned, especially in the closing Hebrew prayer Sh'ma Yisroel, but since the work...
Later in the day, Sam Brown, a former Harvard Divinity student, called the conference "a tragic failure." He accused the participants of lacking passion in their discussion of world problems and of failing to address crucial moral questions...