Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delighted to read Editor Mortimer Smith's outcry against pre-chewed classics [July 7]. I am with him right down the line. To learn that the opening sentence of A Tale of Two Cities has been deleted is tragic. When reading to children I have felt it was good to go over their heads if possible. How else are they going to learn new words and tastes...
Such was the mood of tragic burlesque in which the great Goldfine show bumped and ground to a halt last week. In the final hours the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight tugged a few more details from crafty Witness Goldfine, who, giving only facts that he knew the committee could already prove from other sources, admitted to press and Congress that...
Most Americans denounced the British-French-Israeli attack on Suez. The tragic irony is that our intervention is not very different ... A disinterested observer might say that we are warmongering...
...Where the hell else but in America could you have a cheerful nihilism?" asks a leading character in this highly diverting book, which is a comedy with a tragic ending and, occasionally, a farce with a philosophical meaning. The character who asks the question is Joe Morgan, a history teacher at Wicomico State Teachers College, who has taught himself to "say good-by to objective values." He believes that energy is "what makes the difference between American pragmatism and French existentialism...
...pockets thus stuffed with pacts, promises and big dreams, Hoffa, by his actions last week, made all the more prophetic the words of the McClellan committee report of 1958: Extraordinary power, "now lodged in the hands of a man such as Hoffa, [is] tragic for the Teamsters Union and dangerous for the country at large." And for James Riddle Hoffa, this was only the beginning...