Word: tragically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, said yesterday, "It's tragic that the alleged killers of an outstanding young man could be vehicles for striking down a bad rule, but Swain is one of the worst abominations of American constitutional justice...
...thing is. Moses loved his players. He was a good coach: look at his record. Whether sobbing after Stanton's tragic death or smiling after a satisfying victory, his devotion was obvious...
...artist, it's not hard to see why the musical importance of Charles Mingus has so often been eclipsed by the drama of his troubled life. Even as he first established his unique and revolutionary talent as a bassist, Mingus seemed bent upon becoming one of the great and tragic characters of jazz...
...perhaps expected. Presumably, they had the might and numbers to penetrate as far as they chose. But could they extricate themselves from the historic quicksand with similar ease? The gravestones at Dien Bien Phu. The carcasses of Marine helicopters near Danang. Other place names, other landmarks testify to the tragic fortunes of outsiders who visited Viet Nam in the past and later wished they had never come. In meting out their "lesson," the Chinese?like the French and Americans before them?could find Viet Nam to be an unruly classroom...
Fear, hate and exploitation are themes that haunt Harry Crews. His fiction (Car, A Feast of Snakes) is peopled by grotesque and tragic victims of the rural South. As his autobiography, A Childhood, reveals, Crews earned his vision. He is, to use his own term, a "grit," a poor white brought up on a Depression dirt farm in Georgia, fearful of landlords, Government, floods, of life itself. Maturity has brought courage, but the shudders of childhood remain. So does the gallery of odd personae who enliven his latest book of personal essays, Blood and Grits...