Word: tragically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eulenburg the Proof. Is Biographer Ludwig a shrewd Clarence Darrow, speciously pleading that the culprit's inferiority complex drove him to War Lordhood? To prove beyond a doubt the tragic duality of the Kaiser's personality, Herr Ludwig presents as secondary only to the Emperor in interpretive importance, his bosom friend for 30 years, Count (later Prince) Philip zu Eulenburg-Hertfield...
...Oxford at 30 but amassed millions instead, and wished another generation the joy he had missed in libraries. Charles Francis Adams went in for railroads. Colorless, sad Howells, despairing Mark Twain, bitter-black Ambrose Bierce were the successors of Herman Melville, whose grappling with the primeval had been tragic but sublime; of Whitman, whom Mark Twain congratulated on having lived to see the marvels of steam and electricity. "The guts were gone from idealism" and William James offered a "pragmatic aquiescence" to materialism: a philosophy of becoming, not being...
...Euripides Similarly, the Sophoclean style strikes a compromising note equally removed from the grandiose sublimity of his predecessor and from the freer and more popular handling of the theme in the plays of Euripides. At 12 o'clock today, in Sever 26, Professor Gulick will speak of the tragic poet "who saw life steadily and saw it whole...
...mother. The climax is heavily emotional. Since first seen 18 years ago, it has never failed to draw tears. With this play, Miss Frederick came before her English audience. When the curtain was rung down, women were seen weeping-almost hysterically. Pauline Frederick has a low, beautiful voice, dark, tragic eyes, a well-proportioned figure, slightly more matronly than it was a few years ago when she was a symbol of beauty. In cinema she has recently been cast as the suffering mother. The English critics thought her at least equal to Mrs. Pat Crimpbell. Ellen Terry, in their most...
...reader cannot help but be carried if he take any delight at all in apt phrases applied to gestures and expressions or if his sympathy responds to the semi-tragic aspects of homely irony. As a whole, however, "Tomorrow Morning" belongs to the class of modern biographical novels, clinging helplessly to chronology for their structure and unity that try, in a strained way, to reconcile the contradictions of life. Unwilling or unable suggest philosophical standards and apparently indisposed to endorse, with a whole heart, the futility of things, they feebly press the conclusion that solace lies only in the passing...