Word: fated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time, like two great morning stars of the world's literature. Each is important because in his work there is felt for the first time in the literatures of the world the spiritual awakening of mankind. Each cries, in the anguish of a tortured soul against the injustice of fate and of God, and that cry is symbolic of the first upward step in the sipitham progress...
Thus warbled the muse of Gilbert & Sullivan in the great Gladstonian days of Liberalism.* But Fate, snickering, was even then implanting a new virus, "Laboritis," in the babes. Two infants, born to Conservative parents at the close of the Gladstonian era, grew up to political manhood, and last week vitally vexed their sires...
...although most Americans are hazy as to the whereabouts of Lithuania, and although there could be six revolutions to the minute there without affecting us, there will be plenty of readers to follow the stormy career of bold General Smetons, and to read of the opposing Cabinet Ministers, whose fate in such cases is always a hard and intriguing...
...truth after all is stranger than fiction. For the old preChristian festival of the coming of spring--in Plakos, the scene of the action, with the holy spring, the race of the young men and the sacrifices to appease a jealous God--on the outcome of which hangs of fate of the not unpleasing flapper heroine--lends a back-ground and flavor not to be found in the ordinary detective thriller. The past, the primitive past, with its mysteries and festivals that one feels are perhaps after all part of man, hangs over the book, a dark and rather compelling...
Since the movement is in the hands of capable and same editors there is no fear that the pendulum will swing too far and crash into sensationalism. Mr. Whipple says that when Mr. Sedgwick and Mr. Bridges took over the fate of the dying Atlantic Monthly they put in new blood and "hung quietly in the skeleton closet the notion that the Atlantic was a sort of spinster literary chaperone and that its buff cover conspicuously enough displayed would protect an unattended female anywhere in the world." The new governors of other magazines have done no less. The scarlet...