Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...children with cancer. With only 17 beds, the ward has long waiting lists. And each month some 290 treatments are given to young cancer patients in the hospital's crowded clinic. Memorial's doctors admit that children's cancers are among the most baffling (and most tragic) of all, and that "the mortality rate ... is extremely high...
...godless little acre of squalor and lechery staked out by Novelist Erskine Caldwell has been tilled to exhaustion (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre, Tragic Ground). But Caldwell still goes on. His latest harvest is an unappetizing literary turnip called The Sure Hand...
...Osbert's previous volumes Left Hand, Right Hand and The Scarlet Tree, the dark patches in the tapestry are family matters: the confused tyrannies of the writer's puttering father, the rages and tragic secrecies of his Plantagenet mother. Sir Osbert himself was 19 in 1911, free at last from Eton, but not free from Sir George Sitwell's fuzzy determination to make him a cavalryman. One gentle burlesque that makes this book vivid is Sir Osbert's memory of cavalry training at Aldershot...
Outside the unions themselves, however, in the ranks of the politicians who speak for labor, the intellectuals who think out labor's problems, and that scattered army of professional men, students, and politically-alert citizens who fight labor's public opinion battles, a tragic breach seriously threatens labor's current political potential. This is the independent-liberal split between Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) and Progressive Citizens of America...
...sold the modern equivalent of his Faustian soul, all his ties with society. For the price of two passages to America, he betrays a friend in the Irish Resistance movement, and as he walks through Dublin at night, afraid of everyone, he becomes a Judas, and a truly tragic figure. While the picture takes him through one night of repentance, drinking, boasting, but mainly fear, we see every side of a man who tries to hide from himself, and finally in death understands his great crime...