Word: fated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life itself into the glowing language of music. Beethoven's emotional power was so deep and true that, in expressing himself, he spoke, like every great philosopher, poet or artist, for all mankind. Which one of us in his own experience, has not felt the same protests against relentless Fate that find such uncontrollable utterance in the first movement? Who, again, is untouched by that angelic message, set before us in the second movement, of hope and aspiration, of heroic and even warlike resolution, mingled with the resignation which only great souls know...
...horns and trumpets, clarion calls to action. While we are in this world we must live its life; a living death is unendurable. The Finale, Allegro maestoso, is a majestic declaration of unconquerable faith and optimism--the intense expression of Beethoven's own words, 'I will grapple with Fate, it shall never pull me down'--to be compared only with Browning's 'God's in His heaven, all's right with the world,' and the peroration to Whitman's Mystic Trumpeter, 'Joy, joy, over all joy!' No adequate attempt could be made to translate the music into words. The Symphony...
...fate of the skunk is a problem worthy of our legislators, of the Debating Union, and the CRIMSON. A skunk is no laughing matter. The fate of the owl, the hawk, the snake, the fox and the skunk are chapters in the conservation of wild life from rugged individualism...
Baroness Buxhoeveden was one of the few faithfuls who followed the royal family into their dreary Siberian exile, herself narrowly escaping their gruesome fate. She was constant companion to the grand duchess, but has not recognized the authenticity of the young woman who last year claimed to be Anastasia, escaped...
...their husbands sympathized with the winner because she has been deserted, many times deceived and is now divorced. Mothers who have never had one elder brother banished from his native land, and another killed by a monkey bite recalled that the Gold Medal Mother has endured these blows of Fate...