Word: fate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...properly. The audience begins to arrive and the great citizens reclaim their pillows. White-robed thousands stream in to fill the amphitheater row by row up to the top. At last a trumpet blows, the roar of sound fades into silence--and Medea begins her frightening cry against the fate of woman...
...snowbound, windswept radio hut in Labrador. This solitude has, after two years, become oppressively complete and Dinsmore seems on the point of yielding to the suggestion of his Eskimo man and accepting the services of a native lady of all work. The unhappy man is saved from this greasy fate by the sudden appearance of Sir James Fenton, noted English sportsman and prig, and his comely fiancee, Ethel Campion. Two years of snow and crawling things have improved Dinsmore neither in appearance nor technique, in fact so pointed is his approach to Miss Campion that the noble Sir James resolves...
Smoldering dissatisfaction at University Hall's attitude towards the commuter housing situation may burst into flame this afternoon when Phillips Brooks House's Cabinet meets in special session to decide the fate of the day-students in so far as Brooks House is concerned...
Like the late Joseph Conrad, Malraux sets his story against a sinister and savage background, gives it, without Conrad's ambiguity, a deeper than surface significance. Man's fate, he implicitly says, is death, but there is a royal way to it, for those who have the courage to take...
...Fate echoed Malraux's experience as a revolutionary in China's bloody years, 1925-27, when he was Commissioner of Propaganda for the government of the South, helped stage the Canton insurrection. He could supply at least the scenery for The Royal Way from his archeological explorations in Cambodia and Siam. A publisher's assistant (house of Gallimard), he takes adventurous holidays, last year flew across the Great Arabian Desert and reported the discovery of the legendary city of Sheba (TIME, March...