Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Camp Lewis, Wash. He was sent to the Central Infantry Officers' Training Camp at Waco, Tex., was a first lieutenant when the armistice was signed. After the war he got a job as clerk on the state legislature's judiciary committee. In 1938 he paid a tragic return visit to his home town. His father, who had turned into a miserly hermit with a reputation for ruthless mortgage foreclosures, had been bludgeoned to death with a length of gaspipe. The murder is still unsolved...
...contempt in those lines epitomizes the tragic failure of Vinegar Joe Stilwell, a brave soldier who broke his heart on a job a hundred times too big for him. The deeper tragedy was that Stilwell's colossal failure contributed to the war-born misunderstanding between the U.S. and China; a misunderstanding which has already brought a disaster to China and may have consequences for the U.S. as well...
...government and his warm regard for the Chinese Communists), appeared this week in the current issue of the Ladies' Home Journal. As if in answer, Major General Claire L. Chennault, who commanded the Fourteenth Air Force at Kunming under Stilwell, is writing his very different version of the tragic story for the Scripps-Howard newspapers...
...Markos Vafiades, like many other Greek Communists, was a refugee from Turkey. In 1922, he was caught up in that melancholy trek to his Greek "homeland" where he had no home, known as the "exchange of populations" after the Greco-Turkish War. Other Communist leaders were spawned in that tragic migration. Nicolas Zachariades, father of Greek Communism; Demetrios Partsalides, who became head of the Communist-front EAM; Petros Roussos, who became editor of Rizospastis, principal Communist newspaper in Greece; Roussos' petite, intense wife Chryssa Hadjivassilou, who now likes to think of herself as Greece's Ana Pauker...
...some important respects The Search is a disappointment. Producer Wechsler and Director Fred Zinneman are not, at best, very vigorous or inventive moviemakers. Their subject, enormous almost beyond tragic reach, is frequently reduced to the scale of gracious sentimentality. The moral complexities of the subject are dealt with so shyly that one can scarcely be sure they are consciously dealt with at all.-Despite its lack of real-life vitality (as in Shoeshine The Search may be a popular success. If so, it will help Hollywood find the courage for more such ventures. A studio willing to go the whole...