Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another time and climate, Washington's hoary old dodge-the-blame game might have been amusing. But last week Democrats and Republicans were playing the game for all it was worth over the tragic demise of hardfisted, desperately needed labor legislation. In another part of the capital, Arkansas' John McClellan and his Senate investigating subcommittee continued to document graft, corruption and outright racketeering that led repeatedly to the nation's biggest unions, e.g., the powerful Teamsters, whose boss Jimmy Hoffa is deep in a plan to organize all U.S. transportation. In the face of such evidence there...
Ransom himself gave a reading in Sanders Theatre Thursday night which included tragic poems, nonsense poems, and a Harvard poem. He was introduced by William Y. Elliott, director of the Summer School and himself a Fugitive, who noted that Ransom "made all literature live, because it was something that he himself lived...
...read some of his "tragic" poems--"Dead Boy," "Janet Walking,"--and one of his metaphysical poems, "Persistent Explorer," of a man "who knows he is not going to find anything...
...tales of Gide and watched Conrad on the psychoanalytic couch may well contend that his place is at the podium, as a critic. Anthony might be a spectator at his own doom, but like most heroes in the Age of the Common Man, he is more tedious than tragic...
...disappearance of all Arab governments that are pro-Western by inclination, or that dissent from Nasser's concept of pan-Arabism, would carry starkly tragic implications...