Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long series of turbulent demonstrations beginning in 1965, which were tolerated by most of the University community, leaves a tragic sense of inevitability of the final escalation. Packing the lobby of Hamilton Hall--even the somewhat ambiguous obstruction of Dean Coleman's liberty--was scarcely different from the earlier confrontation in John Jay Hall or the sit-in following the CIA demonstration. SAS's decision to evict the whites and barricade the doors in a demonstration of black student power--one of the key turning points--was a response to an occasion thrust upon the black students. With each successive...
...majority, and any violent challenge to its will must be dealt with firmly. The tyranny of a minority is far more obnoxious than the tyranny of a majority. And at present, the majority clearly feels that law and order must somehow be reasserted. But it would be tragic if in the process the nation were to allow its legitimate fears to be exploited, its understandable concern to be exaggerated. The balancing of law and order against freedom is at the very heart of civilization's work. That work must be done by the leaders of the U.S. with...
Just lately, supporters of the regime received a shot in the arm from the Soviet Union when it invaded Czechoslovakia. Ever since then they can point to that tragic incident any say, "So, aren't even you an anti-communist...
...hamlets of the countryside to encourage the political development which could have competed with the Viet Cong infrastructure for the allegiance of the Vietnamese people. Both The Secret Search and the Abuse of Power also show very clearly that U.S. leaders have failed as propagandists--with tragic domestic results. And finally The Secret Search argues persuasively that the Johnson Administration has failed at the task of diplomacy as well...
Multiple images, reflecting different aspects of his subjects, have been a Gill hallmark ever since his first artistic success, a triptych commemorating the tragic suicide of Marilyn Monroe in 1962. That painting started the artist on a prolific career that has already put his paintings in Manhattan's Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago...