Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bridge on the River Kwai. Director David Lean's magnificently ironic adventure story, developed into a tragic exploration of the unmeaning of life; with Alec Guinness, William Holden (TIME...
...Bridge on the River Kwai. Director David Lean's magnificently ironic adventure story, developed into a tragic exploration of the unmeaning of life; with Alec Guinness, William Holden (TIME...
...Bridge on the River Kwai. Director David Lean's magnificently ironic adventure story, developed into a tragic exploration of the unmeaning of life; with Alec Guinness, William Holden (TIME...
Author Hemingway once described A Farewell to Arms as "my Romeo and Juliet" and the novel does resemble Shakespeare's play in its sentimental confusion of the pathetic with the tragic. Hemingway's Romeo is an American boy who is serving, as Hemingway himself did, in a Red Cross unit attached to the Italian army during World War I. His Juliet is a volunteer nurse in a British field hospital, set up in a small town where the Alps begin to rise toward Austria. They meet, they fall in love, he is sent to the front. A mortar...
...furtive, greedy storekeeper, a mentally retarded girl. In each character's rambling recall, his own weaknesses are laid bare and another's motivation is made clearer. But it is the figure of Stanislaw that holds the book together, and in him Bankowsky has created a near-tragic embodiment of guilt. The flaws in this novel-occasional sentimentalism, and a needlessly interjected chapter set a generation in the future-do not detract from its great, raw impact...