Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McHarg's Design with Nature is a welcome revamping of America's ticky-tacky sluburbs; but there is a tragic flaw undermining his philosophy: "The 100 million more people we expect in the next few decades could be settled in 100 new cities." Imagine America absorbing 100 more Baltimores and Clevelands...
...things considered, an immediate, unilateral withdrawal of U.S. troops that would leave South Viet Nam to its fate is an inadequate, emotional solution to a complex and tragic problem. What, then, are the alternatives? The harsh truth is that there are few available to President Nixon. It is still conceivable?but barely?that Hanoi would agree to a ceasefire, followed by a mutual withdrawal of military forces. Any political settlement that would come after this truce, however, would surely require N.L.F. participation in the government of South Viet Nam; that compromise decision would have to be forced upon the Saigon...
...untie. The trouble with option diplomacy is that it makes no Gordian attempt to explain how policy could have been handled differently. "You put everyone in their place," says a critic, "and see how their options were limited to a, b, and c, and see that the war was tragic but inevitable. You can never make any criticism of American foreign policy this way." Without some analysis of what limits a President's options on a Fedielista coup to a trigger finger reflex, there is no way to construct a different policy...
...evening builds to a tragic climax, a melancholy sense of the dooming, repetitive quality of family life patterns grows with it. The playgoer is invaded and disturbed by a sense of the lost ifs that determine people's lives. If the father had not been an alcoholic, if some rays of civilized light had filtered into the Carney home, if brute passions could be confined to the brutes, if, if, if-a lament for humanity's near misses at achieving humanity. For awful as they are, the Carneys are not all bad. They have courage, they are loyal...
...what makes it all the more tragic is the fact that Champi's deification, and its gradual deterioration obscured the talent of a football squad that never depended upon Champi as much as sportswriters wished to believe...