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At the other extreme, an instance may be as large as an event, such as the Cuban missile crisis (Allison, 1971) and the swine flu vaccine (Neustadt and Fineberg, 1978), which have been the subjects of two well-known case studies, or the Challenger tragedy.
Whatever the reasons for this deplorable twist in public morality, America's loss of its moral compass is a tragedy even more consequential than Bill Clinton's adultery.
The season before that, it was All My Sons , Miller's 1947 tragedy about a son's discovery of his father's wartime corruption.
In Bowie's failure to sell big in the States, James Miller isolates what I suspect is the real tragedy in his own critical life.
In Biskind's account of the tragedy of the New Hollywood, Spielberg is the villain, Hal Ashby the martyr, and Scorsese the scarred survivor.