Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were deep personal troubles. His 25-year marriage to Esther Yanofsky Pike, his second wife, ended in divorce in 1967. Less explicable in terms of his own energetic personality, but even more tragic, were the suicides of two people close to him. One had been Pike's personal secretary and close friend. The other was his 20-year-old eldest son, James Jr., who shot himself in a New York hotel in 1966. Not long after that tragedy, Pike began involving himself in psychic research and spiritualism. His efforts to reach his dead son were unabashedly and painfully...
...place to pass judgment on Senator Kennedy's action. Perhaps your readers have never experienced an emotion called shock. It is not the place of one human being to judge what degree of shock another should or can experience, or to judge what the response to an unexpected, tragic situation will...
What will the inquest, due to begin this week at Edgartown, do to make sense of that bizarre and tragic night? The answer will obviously depend upon the candor and character of those who attended the cookout, including Kennedy, and upon the acuity of the questions raised by District Attorney Edmund Dinis. It will also rest significantly upon how far the presiding judge, James A. Boyle, permits Dinis to range in exploring not only the immediate circumstances of the accident but also the actions and omissions of Kennedy and his friends afterward. Last week Boyle indicated that he would allow...
...inquest may serve to answer the unanswered questions in what is be coming a peculiar and in some ways tragic episode in American political history. Or it may be that those who might have the answers will stick by the explanations already given, however implausible they seem. For the moment, all of the guests at the Chappaquiddick party continue to preserve what seems to be a preternatural silence...
...guns faced angry demonstrators. Even the cries of the crowd had a haunting familiarity. "We want Dubček!" shouted the demonstrators, paying tribute to the man whose attempt to give Communism a more human visage had brought Czechoslovakia a heady, hopeful "Springtime of Freedom." But there was a tragic difference. Last August, the tanks and troopers were Soviet. Last week, on the first anniversary of the invasion, the Czechoslovaks served as their own warders...