Word: fate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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American "indifference to the fate of the Arab peoples" was responsible for the recent Communist penetration into oil-rich Iraq, Bartley Crum, a member of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry in Palestine in 1947, told a Liberal Union forum last night...
...Dulles' Fate Doubtful...
...Spanish language-"would become only a whiff of vermouth in the martini instead of the olive." Statehood's proponents argue that it would give Puerto Rico six or seven Congressmen and two Senators, a voice in making federal laws and decisions that govern the island's fate, and would end the pervasive feeling that Puerto Ricans are really only second-class citizens...
...maintained that MacLeish's J.B. is an entirely different character from Job. The Bible's Job "shouts his pride, shrieks his blasphemy, and fights with a God who eludes his attacks." By comparison, Terrien finds MacLeish's J.B. "emasculated." He is merely "the diseased victim of fate, who hardly, if ever at all, rises above the level of intellectual stupor and spiritual impassivity...
More Than Matter. In the course of the story, Montés touches three people-a broad-hipped mare of a peasant woman, with whom he sits for one evening and talks; and her two little girls, who follow him about for the gumdrops he hands out. But fate, Novelist Simon seems to be saying with irony, cooperates enthusiastically in making martyrs of saints; the woman is murdered, and the two children are taken away. "Man," writes the author, "is doubtless something more than matter; perhaps not much more, but all the same a little something more, just enough...