Word: fate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have spent three terms in the Oregon State House of Representatives, and twice we have tried and failed to pass civil rights legislation. It is too early to tell what will happen this session, but our bill seems destined to share the fate of its predecessors...
Within the cycle of a single season, from winter pruning to fall harvest, Barich constructs a coherent world whose natural beauty can be coldly indifferent. Disease, obsolescence and bad timing threaten both man and grape. Arthur, the working stiff, confronts that fate with inconspicuous stoicism. Intellectual Anna is more expressive: "Everything on earth was frail and fleeting, destined to crumble," she reflects. "All you could cling to in the end were those loving particulars." Among them are Atwater's favorite lopping shears, which he uses to clear deadwood to make way for new growth. They are the unmistakable metaphor...
American political workers go to Russia to assist Boris Yeltsin in his campaign. The cia sends agents to foreign countries to influence their governments. As long as the U.S. plays such a big role in determining the fate of people in other countries, those nations ought to have half a chance to say, through donations, which party controls the U.S. government and what it does to them. YISHAN WONG, age 18 St. Paul, Minnesota...
...themselves cut off from any possible solace and forgiveness. "These stories make clear what the longer expanses of his novels tend to obscure: Stone is, for all the glittery bleakness of his plots and settings, at heart a metaphysical writer, intensely interested?as was Flannery O?Connor?in the fate of people who cannot find a reason for their existence," says TIME's Paul Gray. "The husband in Helping who falls off the wagon tries to defend himself by attacking his religious wife: ?Sometimes I try to imagine what it?s like to believe that the sky is full...
...themselves cut off from any possible solace and forgiveness. "These stories make clear what the longer expanses of his novels tend to obscure: Stone is, for all the glittery bleakness of his plots and settings, at heart a metaphysical writer, intensely interested?as was Flannery O?Connor?in the fate of people who cannot find a reason for their existence," says TIME's Paul Gray. "The husband in Helping who falls off the wagon tries to defend himself by attacking his religious wife: ?Sometimes I try to imagine what it?s like to believe that the sky is full...