Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strange, and tragic sometimes, how the press can deify an athlete because of an isolated moment of excellence and increase the myth until his demise, when it occurs is catastrophic...
...tragic, too, Kennedy's professed concern with the loss of lives in Viet Nam when he was so negligent about saying the one young life over which he had direct control at Chappaquiddick...
...will rise proportionately. That is a dubious assumption. Visitors to Prague are assured that industrial sabotage continues unabated. Few Czechoslovaks seem to care that they themselves, and not the Soviet occupiers, are the first victims. They seem bent on committing slow economic suicide, which in its way is as tragic as the destruction of political freedom a year...
Eloquent Letter. The Wendells-the "thems" whose histories are desiccated by news accounts and government reports-are not simply victims of economic and social disorder. Miss Gates has taken pains to make them convincing representatives of man's tragic conflict between his need for passionate self-expression and society's restraints...
...gets busted on a ridiculous littering charge in Stockbridge and later discovers that the charge will exempt him from military responsibilities to the United States. Like the Flatt and Scruggs' banjo music that underscores Bonnie and Clyde, Arlo's song of the "Alice's Restaurant Massacre" gives an essentially tragic movie the look of a comedy...