Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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COQUETTE-Familiar types-stern father, scapegrace lover, virgin daughter-in tragic and surprising play (TIME, Nov.21...
Goin' Home. Negroes make fine figures for the drama. Their emotions, less obscure and tangled than those of Caucasians, are also less controlled. Theirs, too, is a tragic and extraordinary position in a white man's world. In his admirable play, which won the Longmans, Green Drama League prize, it is this theme, not the entirely black disasters and delights of Porgy, which Ransom Rideout builds upon...
...That the Hoover declarations "we must and shall maintain our naval defense" and "we must not only be just; we must be respected," were swaggering, hypocritical, tragic...
...fresh adventure for the morrow" (their creator is 61), the Forsyte saga is done. Done because the cycle of old Soames Forsyte's life is complete, and his daughter Fleur, the only descendant that bred true to Forsyte pride and cynical acquisitiveness, has worried her fate to tragic anticlimax. In The White Monkey fate (and Soames) wrenched her from the love of her cousin Jon; in The Silver Spoon fate (and Soames) taught her to snatch what she wanted; in Swan Song again fate (but not Soames) brings her Jon that she might snatch him only to lose...
...simple, tragic tale of a rat named Grip, who could not make up his mind, was a piece of red hot news last week. William Cabell Greet, professor of Phonetics and the History of English at Barnard College, Columbia University, assembled seven men from scattered parts of the U.S. to tell the tale of Grip to wax discs in a recording studio of the Victor Talking Machine Co. The idea: to preserve for posterity accurate specimens of U. S. dialects...