Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...working abroad, and he is caught between his father's influence and that of his Catholic aunt. Although fascinated with computers, Pavel is still questioning; he hasn't made up his mind about God or the world. Opposing faiths in God and man-made science finally clash directly, with tragic results...
...Kurds who had turned their enclave in northern Iraq and parts of Turkey, Iran and Syria into a virtual semiautonomous state, the infighting is tragic. It is almost entirely the product of animosity between two men leading rival parties who are deeply jealous of each other. "This struggle for power is as personal as it can get," says a Pentagon analyst. When the Kurds held an election for an autonomous government to run Kurdistan in 1992, Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party and Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan split the vote, forcing them to accept coalition rule. Last May open...
...neurological functions. Creativity is not a word that comes easily to many physicians, but Sacks strongly believes that invention is a measure, if not a definition, of health. His own robust literary output flows from different sources. "It's the mixture of physiology with poetic and often tragic accounts of the subjective aspects of being ill, of neurological syndromes which fascinates the two halves of me," he says. "I might go to an Ibsen play one night and a physiology meeting the next." Now those two halves have come together. "It's the relation between these two centers that...
Many consider "La Boheme" to be Puccini's best score, as well as the embodiment of verismo, dramatic ideals in which real people lead real lives that just happen to be tragic. The simplicity of this type of tragedy, as well as the idealistic view of youth and love, which appealed to late nineteenth-century audiences still appeals to modern ones. Aside from this opera, and a handful of others, only in recent years has the Lowell House Opera featured Italian works. keeping with this spirit of testing Mediter-ranean waters, this year's "La Boheme" courageously unleashes the amore...
...aftermath of the tragic police helicopter crash that took four lives, one question arises: Do government agencies, especially the police (who have a high level of unaccountability), regularly provide helicopter taxi service for repairmen...