Happy Land (1943) starred Don Ameche in a sentimental yarn about a home-front tragedy during World War II, whereas And Now Tomorrow (1944) was sentiment sans patriotism, with Alan Ladd and Loretta Young playing would-be lovers whom society keeps apart.
For most people, what lies outside our front door is tragedy.
Over the last several days, however, Chinese have insistently pushed the Wenzhou tragedy front and center, refusing to accept the government's rationalizations and distractions.
The experiences of Rodney Rocha, a NASA engineer, before the space shuttle Columbia tragedy (front page, Sept. 26) prompt a question: Why were the irresponsible managers involved reassigned or allowed to retire, almost certainly with a taxpayer-financed pension?
The Independent put the haunting picture of the drowned toddler on its front page and the tragedy became the subject of a social media storm.
The facade of all political parties coming together to present a united front to confront the tragedy lasted only a day.
The first e-mail message opened at noon today by Tom Fiedler, the editorial page editor of The Miami Herald, began, "I am ashamed of The Herald -- focusing your front page on the tragedy of little Elian".
The image of Rooney's helplessness still lingers heavily in the memory of English soccer, with this month's Time magazine in Europe using an image of the 26-year-old, hands on hips, despondently looking to the turf, for the front of its "The Tragedy of English Football" special section.
The fact that this tragedy occupied front pages for a long stretch was evidence that there wasn't something more substantial and negative for editors and the public to fixate on.
We need to wake up and recognize the tragedy in front of us.
This tragedy is front-page news, largely because the railways are extremely safe".
