Word: tragically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...central premise of the story--that a Yale faculty member is the "lead suspect" in the investigation of this tragic murder--has been refuted by the police categorically. Yale's college newspaper, the Yale Daily News, reported that New Haven Police Department's communications supervisor David Burleigh said that reports that a faculty member may have killed Jovin were "grievous errors" and "premature and reckless...
...great tragedy of The Conversion is that we, as readers, find it so difficult to feel sorry for the characters in spite of their monstrously tragic lives. Rather than the passionate emotion one would expect in a story of conversion and cultural abandonment, The Conversion leaves the reader unaffected, apathetic in spite of the moral importance of the issues at hand. In a way, Appelfeld is teaching by example. By convincing the reader that conversion is no more than an economic transaction, and humanity characterized by little more than greed and self-interest, he shows the ease with which...
...sense of naivete and youthful nerve. Theseus--Jonathan Epstein--delivers a charged performance as well, with his towering stature and the gruff voice of an Athenian warrior. The production appears to intentionally spark audience laughter in the most wrenching scenes. At times, the play pounds on with a tragic death occurring every 30 seconds and the pathetically ragged messenger scurrying on and off stage, uttering in melodramatic rasp, "Master, he/she's dead...
...letter notes that "although crime in New Haven is down 33 percent since 1990 and Yale's campus police force has been doubled in the last decade, the tragic things that happen in the world will happen here from time to time - which does not make them less grievous when they occur...
...paper decided to print the two pages of letter because "during a tragic time like this, we bear the responsibility of not only informing our student body but also understanding their needs and being here with them," said the newspaper's Editor-in-Chief, Isaiah Wilner...