Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...owes an obviously large debt to Marlowe's magnificent Edward II, which was written two or three years earlier and which Richard II resembles in theme, structure, and numerous details. Looking in the other direction, one can say that, without the experience of fashioning here his first great tragic protagonist, Shakespeare would not have been able to create Hamlet, a closely related personality...
...Agent George Bonebrake, were on a rifle and telescopic sight abandoned in a store doorway near the shooting and also on binoculars wrapped with the weapon. Affidavits from merchants in Montgomery, Ala., and Birmingham pointed to Ray as the man who had purchased the binoculars, rifle and sight. "The tragic death of Dr. King was the working of the single hand of this man," declared Calcutt, pointing to the prisoner's dock...
...NASA officials, the mock space voyage had particular significance. To prevent a repeat of last year's tragic Apollo fire, they had spent $75 million improving and fireproofing the lunar command ship. And apart from some unexpected itching from the astronauts' new flameproof space suits, and a temporary breakdown of the huge vacuum testing chamber, the modified capsule's first full-fledged ground test was an unqualified success...
...doubt that anyone who does not own a gun can be any more outraged at the tragic assassination of Senator Kennedy than are the many responsible citizens who happen to be sportsmen and gun owners [June 21]. I have seen firearms used for good (yes, even against fellow man), as well as for evil; but I have not as yet laid blame (or credit) to the gun. It is interesting to ponder if the emotion of the moment will bring on a joust with windmills, and whether the result will provide a catharsis for the guilt complex of a nation...
...portrait of Robert Kennedy by Artist Louis Glanzman is a masterpiece of mood. It not only projects the exhaustion and fatalism of one man, but it seems also to echo the look of a nation engulfed in tragic sorrow, angry disillusionment and political despair...