Word: tragically
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...architect for the aborted extension of the Fogg Art Museum yesterday called President Bok's decision to abandon plans for the new building "tragic" and asserted that construction was set to start when Bok announced his move...
...rather tragic for the Fogg especially" James Stirling said from his home in London. "I was really stunned by the whole thing...
...adventure all start from the proposition "what if..."/ and ask that you leave the real world at the ticket booth. Arthur Penn has had trouble dealing with America's failure to face facts. His early films exalt the gangster, the loner who lives above and beyond society despite the tragic consequences. Bonnie and Clyde and Little Big Man, show compassion and humor while revealing the ugliness of American mythology. Yet 1976's Missourt Breaks shows confusion, and worse, a lack of anything...
...days ago, the administration announced a $55 million increase in military aid to that country's ruling junta. The worst thing of it, of course, is that people and dying for during to ask not to live in hell. But for Americans there is, or should be, another tragic sadness. Some--with more faith than reason--thought Vietnam had taught us a little about our nation and the world. That may be we had changed...
...murder would be the exception in a life that otherwise displayed merit and extravagantly claimed mercy. But Jack Abbott's vividly ranting book, brutal and brutalized, should have made the jury wonder which was more characteristic of the man: literature or murder. In a long and essentially tragic perspective (in which all consequences are endured, all debts paid), literature performs its redemptions. Mailer's formula is a shallow little mechanism. "Culture is worth a little risk," he says. The world of that sentence is upside down: you defend culture, do you not, by locking up the people...