Word: tragically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foster Dulles, genuinely disheartened, departed from his prepared text: "At the choice of the Soviet Union, the fears and risks continue. They continue for one reason alone, and that is because the Soviet Union rejects international inspection against surprise attack. The significance of that is frightening. The result is tragic. It means that at the will and choice of the Soviet Union, we shall have to go on living on the edge of an awful abyss...
...daubing the character and career of Lord Randolph's stupendous son Winston, Rowse makes clear that the father's tragic fall from power served more than anything else to spur the son to glory. Among Sir Winston's faults Rowse cites his lack of "some intuitive tactile sense to tell him what others were thinking and (especially) feeling." Rowse attributes this partly to Sir Winston's breeding: the "very strength of the two natures mixed in him, the self-willed English aristocrat and the equally self-willed primitive American" combined to make him greater...
...even Mrs. Bodington would pretend that these three long stories make happy reading. They are all deeply tragic, and not even the slickness that shows occasionally as the result of her training in whodunits can damage the soundness of her insights. As one teen-age character says of his parents: "They really are quite decent, when one considers how incredibly dense and selfish grownups are." But decency in these stories turns out to be not quite enough...
...fact that the parents' agony is not enough to induce forgiveness for their failure to know their own child. ¶Tho' the Pleasant Life Is Dancing Round tries to show how even exterior happiness may fail to reconcile a brilliant teen-age boy to the tragic quota of life. Loved and even coddled by his suburban parents, he does not ask what's-in-it-for-me but what-does-it-have-to-offer-for-anyone? After a fearful tour of the lower depths of London, he has his answer: nothing. His suicide will seem improbable only...
...think that the desire to set young America aside as a tragic product of history and economics is nothing so much as it is "our generation's" vanity. There is some sentiment around today that young people, post World War II, parallel in their reaction to their problems the young people of post World War I. Instead of setting up shop at Gertrude Stein's or Pamplona, we are setting up shop inside ourselves, and watch out, brother, we are going to come up with some great literature. This is, I think, an academic approach. All the talk we hear...