Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that is not so in the world happenings of today-and I am proud that it is not so. I am glad that we Americans are shocked, that we are angered by the tragic news that has come to us from Belgium and The Netherlands and Luxembourg." He praised the ideals of the New World ("We feel that we are building human progress by conquering disease and poverty ... removing one by one the many cruelties and crudities and barbarities of less civilized eras") and saw them menaced by a Hitler victory ("the school of destruction . . . those who seek to dominate...
...Artagnan. They saw fear and grief portrayed by belly-writhings and animal howls. They saw Olivier, in the first balcony scene, rush around like a dazed fireman trying to save a trapped maiden from the flames. The poetry that lifts the story to the level of tragic romance was simply not there...
Discussing our expanding horizons in science, Professor Shapley decried the view that science is the cause of the "present tragic world order". "It is philosophy and religion that have betrayed us, not the engineers, he said...
...believe that the present tragic world order should be charged to physicists, chemists, and engineers, then I insist that you have not thought it through...
...college students that "America was carried into the last war chiefly by the machinations of selfish business men and the hysteria of a superficial emotion," O'Brien said, "The way to secure peace and make it a lasting peace is to face frankly and to discuss freely disagreeable and tragic realities...