Word: fate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From this point on, The Tower of Babel becomes a ghastly sequence of horrors- or, as some may see it, a small-scale presentation of the fate of pure intellect in the clutches of today's harsh world. Slowly, inexorably, the new Mrs. Kien invades her hapless husband's ivory tower, teams up with the brutal janitor of the building to throw Kien out and sell his priceless library. Half-crazy, half-beaten to a pulp by his elephantine wife, Kien runs out into the streets-of which he is as ignorant as a babe-and takes shelter...
Thirty-four other persons lost their lives in eleven additional air crashes last weekend, and the fate of 35 others was still uncertain...
...competitive record started back in 1936, when he entered the National Intercollegiate championships in the first of three attempts at the crown. He was nosed out by Fred Haas of L.S.U., and met'a similar fate at the hands of two more Louisiana players in succeeding years. Barclay side-stepped this jinx long enough to defeat the famous Willie Turnesa in the 1937 event...
...munched on each procedural point with his usual grim relish. But he went along with the U.S.-British idea that a central German government should be created to receive the peace terms, and dropped his dilatory demand to discuss Austria only after the German peace was settled; henceforth, the fate of Austria would be taken up in the mornings, that of Germany in the afternoons...
...they will get 200,000 words-now stimulating, now baffling-about Chinese art, philosophy, politics and paradox, mixed in with gang fights, raids, a U.S. hero and heroine and hissing Japanese spies. Novelist Cahill's polar north lies somewhere between André Malraux's Man's Fate and Cartoonist Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates, but lacks the invigorating climate of either...