Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cloud of alleged corruption that is now hovering over Bellotti carries a tragic irony. Bellotti, in his 1964 narrow loss to former Governor John A. Volpe, was the victim of vicious and apparently false innuendos concerning his ties to the underworld. The defeat for governor, which came when Bellotti was only 41 years old, marked the turning point of a meteoric rise to power in Massachusetts politics...
...gives man the crucial information that begins male domination: fire can also be used to smelt metal from rock, and metal can be forged into spearheads and axes. Thus is born man's wanderlust, his will to strive and conquer, his ability to make myths and reason to tragic absurdities. It is history's first chapter. In the second chapter, the power of the breast and the soup pot go underground...
...tragic and timeless subjects were not to be found on the street. The American artists wanted to locate their discourse beyond events, in a field not bound by historical time, that went back to preliterate, "primitive" tribal antiquity. The notion of ritual occupied the same place in their work that the idea of the "marvelous" did in French surrealism. Totem, cave, prison, sentinel, medium, personage, priest: such were the recurrent images...
Atomic bombs, carcinogenic threats, the futility of state, mechanical efficiency--the entire decadence of human life in 20th century America--whittles reality into an apocalypse; and America needs and loves her tragic heroes more than ever...
...much-maligned manager, were more than prophetic; they defined the basic, time-hankering flaw of the Boston Red Sox: They are an obsessive team, so narrowly focused on winning an elusive pennant that they are too inflexible to cope with sudden injuries, slumps and clubhouse conflicts. They are tragic heroes in a city full of tragic heroes. And so, for Boston baseball fans, the Red Sox are true heroes, the perfect cast of real-life drama...