Soviet Ambassador to China Dmitry Bogomolov: Diplomatic Brilliance and Personal Tragedy

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (005) ◽  
pp. 248-271
Author(s):  
K. Barsky
Keyword(s):  
Personal Tragedy

Cranford

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Gaskell ◽  
Dinah Birch
Keyword(s):  
Social Contexts ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Personal Tragedy ◽  
The Way

A man … is so in the way in the house!’ A vivid and affectionate portrait of a provincial town in early Victorian England, Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford describes a community dominated by its independent and refined women. Undaunted by poverty, but dismayed by changes brought by the railway and by new commercial practices, the ladies of Cranford respond to disruption with both suspicion and courage. Miss Matty and her sister Deborah uphold standards and survive personal tragedy and everyday dramas; innovation may bring loss, but it also brings growth, and welcome freedoms. Cranford suggests that representatives of different and apparently hostile social worlds, their minds opened by sympathy and suffering, can learn from each other. Its social comedy develops into a study of generous reconciliation, of a kind that will value the past as it actively shapes the future. This edition includes two related short pieces by Gaskell, ‘The Last Generation in England’ and ‘The Cage at Cranford’, as well as a selection from the diverse literary and social contexts in which the Cranford tales take their place.

„In den Lüften liegt Man nicht eng“. Anmerkungen zur unauflösbaren Tragik des Dichters Paul Celan

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-34
Author(s):  
Horst Samson ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Paul Celan ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Personal Tragedy

"“In the Air Where You Won’t Lie Too Cramped.” Notes on the Irresolvable Tragedy of the Poet Paul Celan. Paul Celan's work is characterized by reflections on the power and possibilities of language and poetry in general in processing personal tragedy and painful borderline experiences, especially the experience of the Holocaust. These experiences range from the persecution of Jews, the deportation and murder of his parents, to the ""Goll Plagiarism Affair"" or to mental illness in the last years of his life. These experiences of persecution and extermination of the Jews and Celan's involvement in the tragedy of his people are reflected in many of his poems, especially in Todesfuge. Keywords: Celan, Shoa, modern German poetry and language, tragedy "

‘But then what?’

Studying Ida ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 81-90
Author(s):  
Sheila Skaff
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Common Fate ◽  
Spiritual Transcendence ◽  
The World ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Personal Tragedy

This chapter talks about Paweł Pawlikowski's Ida as an ultimate film that speaks to any community that has been kept from fulfilling its full human potential in the last century. It emphasizes Ida's acknowledgement of Nazism, Stalinism, the Cold War, and political oppression throughout the world that have forced people into situations that they would have otherwise avoided. It also discusses how Ida is a film about meditation on the limitations that war, powerful ideologues, and forced emigration place on their survivors. This chapter mentions critic Tadeusz Sobolewski of Gazeta Wyborza, who wrote that Ida's dilemma lies in bearing the weight of evil that she has hidden herself. It examines Ida's silent refusal, spiritual transcendence, and way of coping with her personal tragedy and loss, which is considered a common fate among immigrants and orphans.

Initial Success in Italy

2019 ◽  
pp. 103-117
Author(s):  
Michael E. Lynch
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
The Other ◽  
Combat Experience ◽  
Personal Tragedy ◽  
The Way

After more than a year of training, Almond and the 92nd Infantry Division deployed to Italy, . where it initially performed well. The 370th Infantry Regiment led the way to Italy, and paired with the 1st Armored Division for its introduction to combat. The regiment acquitted itself well in its initial combat experience, but the other two regiments did not fare as well. Along with the arrival of the rest of the division and the nondivisional units that would support it, Almond gained the 366th Infantry Regiment, another African American regiment that had been used to guard airbases. The addition of this unit, and its own lack comprehension proved to be a disruptive influence in the division. This chapter also carries the story of personal tragedy, as Almond discovers that his son in law has been killed in combat.

A personal tragedy

1999 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-46
Author(s):  
Hazel Brookman
Keyword(s):  
Personal Tragedy

I. The Impeachment of the Earl of Clarendon

1957 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clayton Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Francis Bacon ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
Personal Tragedy

Few Lord Chancellors have defended the laws of England with greater steadfastness than Edward Hyde, first Earl of Clarendon. Yet the House of Commons impeached him in 1667 for attempting to subvert those laws. Standing guardian over the English constitution, he was accused of plotting its ruin. Less guilty than Francis Bacon, he suffered a harsher fate. More innocent than Lord Keeper Finch, he endured the same painful banishment from the England he loved. On 11 November 1667 the House of Commons impeached him for high treason, and though they were unable to prove their accusation, they forced him, by the violence of their prosecution, to flee to France. It was his personal tragedy to suffer disgrace, calumny, and banishment though guilty of no crime.

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