Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shroud of terror and darkness that has enveloped Cambodia ever since it fell to the Communist Khmer Rouge in April 1975 lifted slightly last week, but in a way that was at once tragic and bizarre. After a three-year refusal by Cambodia's new rulers to admit Western news correspondents to Democratic Kampuchea-as Cambodia now calls itself-two American reporters, Richard Dudman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Elizabeth Becker of the Washington Post, returned to the U.S. with detailed accounts of a two-week visit. A third member of their party, British Scholar Malcolm Caldwell...
Buck's study, an "innovative, imaginative work," concentrates on the re-establishment of ties between the North and South, rather than treating the period of reconstruction as "a tragic era," Frank B. Friedel, Warren Professor of American History, said yesterday...
...systems, evincing particular interest in that of the U.S. Finally, a wall poster addressed to Jimmy Carter appeared on democracy wall. "We should like to ask you to pay attention to the state of human rights in China," it said. "The Chinese people do not want to repeat the tragic life of the Soviet people in the Gulag Archipelago. This will be a real test for your promise on human rights." The poster concluded with greetings to "your wife and family," and was signed "The Human Rights Group." Authorities removed the poster within a few hours, an indication that...
...free itself from all political cant. It contains no antiwar characters at all; its prowar characters are apolitical foot soldiers, not fire-breathing gook killers. The film is as far removed from Coming Home as it is from The Green Berets. Cimino has attempted to embrace all the tragic contradictions of the U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia...