Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Resistentialism is a philosophy of tragic grandeur. It is difficult to give an account of it in textbook English after hearing Ventre's witty aphorisms, but I will try. Resistentialism derives its name from its central thesis that Things (res) resist (résister) men . . . Pre-atomic philosophies . . . were concerned merely with what men think about Things. Now, Resistentialism is the philosophy of what Things think about...
Broad as his range and virtuosity are, it seems possible that Olivier's greatest gifts are for comedy, especially for comedy which works close to the tragic. Like every first-rate comedian's, his sense of reality is strong and cool; his understanding of "the modesty of nature," and his regard for it, are exceptionally acute. Those who venerate the best in acting will easily forgive the rare excesses in this Hamlet, and will easily get over disappointments as beautiful as these; they will not soon forget the lively temperateness, the perfect commingling of blood and judgment...
...mechanics of governing, what chances he was willing to take and what risks he could not venture, are in themselves a handbook of political science. They are as worldly as Machiavelli without his cynicism, and as wise as Lincoln, lacking only Lincoln's tenderness, and his doomed and tragic devotion. This book is a major document of our times...
Crowed Crawford: "The Virden case is indeed tragic . . . [But] Federal officials having known Red relatives . . . will save themselves and their Government embarrassment by removing themselves...
...study human lives during a period when not merely was an old order overthrown but several more were manufactured and destroyed. If she could have created the outer atmospheres and inner climates through which her characters are supposed to have lived, The Nazarovs would be a novel of great tragic force. But the job calls for more than the style of a competent linguist and the memory of a good reporter. What will impress the reader is not so much the novel that is there as the suggestion of the novel that might have been...