Word: fate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...membership invitations operate on a blackball election system ensures that discrimination will exist (only one club has ever had a Negro member). Anywhere from one to three blackballs (i.e., negative votes) will require a club to reconsider the case for electing a "punchee," and four blackballs definitely seals his fate...
More Stately Mansions. Watching a Eugene O'Neill play fail is sometimes as awesome as seeing the Titanic sink. More Stately Mansions, however, is more like a becalmed Flying Dutchman on which trapped passengers spend three hours torturing one another and ranting about their fate. On the spacious stage of Los Angeles' elegant Ahmanson Theater, site of the play's U.S. premiere last week, Mansions stays within hailing distance of the playgoer's interest, but it never gets heartbeat close...
...only as A., who out of dislike for his bourgeois parents drifts from membership in a mild radical party to participation in an assassination plot with bomb-throwing anarchists. Any work on this subject inevitably demands comparison with some 20th century masterpieces, including Malraux's Man's Fate and Camus' long essay The Rebel. In that company, Koningsberger is hopelessly out of place; what is more, his character is also out of date. A.'s home is an imaginary European country, not Africa or Asia, where the action is. Furthermore, A. is totally unversed...
...first, Papadopoulos had settled for the relatively unimposing post of Minister to the Premier. Brigadier General Stylianos Pattakos took over the powerful Interior Ministry, and Colonel Nicholas Makarezos assumed control of Greece's economic fate as Minister of Coordination. Once in office, though, Papadopoulos steadily improved his position. Last month he steered through the Cabinet an edict establishing a "general directorate of government policy" that operates under his personal control and gives him veto power over all laws drafted by the various ministers. In addition, he has created his own mini-Cabinet, which supersedes the work of regular ministries...
Though Sir Stafford was the chief beneficiary, the royal commission's inquiry showed last week that well-paying consultancies were handsomely distributed among the rest of the U.B.P.'s ruling executive council-the body through which the islands' fate was firmly controlled for years by the white businessmen-politicians who are known as "the Bay Street boys." Sir Roland Symonette, the first Prime Minister of the Bahamas, signed on as a $20,000-a-year consultant to Grand Bahama's real estate developers. His son, Robert, an internationally famed yachtsman, also had a five-year consulting...