Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Held in Hitler's onetime headquarters, the massive FÜhrerbauhaus, it contained not a single blond Balder, buxom BrÜnnhilde or veiled Valhalla of the sort Hitler had liked to see. There were few still lifes or portraits either, and surprisingly few bitter or tragic pictures such as George Grosz and Kathe Kollwitz had made between wars. Instead of all that, the best young German painters were doing abstractions, by the acre...
...never actually does it, never communicates the awful internal bleeding of mismated lives, the blundering wastefulness of life itself. Possibly Lola is too shallow to allow of much probing. But the more complicated, frustrated Doc does need-to be probed. For one thing, is he the tragic victim of a single mistake, or a weak man almost bound to fail? Playwright Inge tends to substitute mere sympathy for insight, and to employ those little touches that, though meant to be telling, are just the worn small change of domestic drama. Too often, with a dull pen, he writes on tracing...
Will the social historian of the mid twentieth century be forced to conclude this ideal was driven to its last retest: the tragic haunts of desperate man? Will he be forced to write that here alone, as it guided by some higher institution, the harlot and the burlesque queen knew perhaps instinctively the ultimate nature of all beauty? The Ideal is permanent; the Fashionable only passing...
...longest and most important section of the play from which Lear is absent. The main purpose of the act in the build up a feeling that there has been enough suffering, so that the later hanging of Cordelia and the expiration of Lear will have a more powerful tragic effect. The actors fail to build up this feeling of satiety, so that Lear's entrance, bearing Cordelia, does not have the powerful impact is should have, until Devlin rebuilds the structure himself...
...Covenant, by Morton Thompson. The tragic life of Hungarian Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, discoverer of the cause of childbed fever, as told in a sometimes awkward, always sincere novelized version (TIME...