Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playwright Clare Boothe Luce, winner of the 1951 Newman Club award for outstanding service in church and government, spoke out against one of the weaknesses of world government. At the Newman Club Federation convention in Wentworth-by-the-sea, N. H., she said: "The United Nations offers a tragic example of the frustration to which the most idealistic efforts of materialist man is doomed. The U.N. is a failure, not because unity among nations is undesirable or impossible. It is a failure because the spiritual conditions of unity are not present...
False security, leading to overexertion, can be far more tragic. A man may have made a good recovery from one heart attack, so that his electrocardiogram looks almost normal. But at the very moment of the reading, a clot may be forming in a coronary artery which will kill him next...
...Raisz has been a crusader for geography as a method of bringing true understanding among nations. When he talks of the University's emasculation of geography in the last three years, his slightly foreign-accented voice raises and he lets his heavy spectacles drop from his eyes. "It is tragic, tragic," he says, "that in a period like this the University choose to practically abandon the one subject which teaches the differences and similarities between nations. For both an Army officer or a United Nations official, geography is the vital subject...
Portrait Plus. Novelist Cary makes the sudden tragic ending seem inevitable. Johnson, he seems to say, is too original and impulsive a poet of life to endure life's limitations, and Cary leads poor Johnson to his doom with sympathy that never threatens to become maudlin...
...attainment of the educational ideal of the college are avoided in the search for the easy course . . . The regimen of football players makes them unable to enter a program of premedical study. There is pressure for special consideration for athletes on the score of heavy athletic duty. The tragic consequence is illustrated by the graduation records of the past nine years: football players as a group have been only a little more than half as successful as the rest of the student body in completing the requirements for the degree. They have been exploited on the gridiron under the pretense...