Word: fated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fate and Texas gave Martin Dies an impressive physique, a durable voice, a seat in Congress. Mr. Dies lately has given the U. S. a Congressional investigation. By the standards of past masters at inquisition his performance has not been brilliant. Ex-Senator (now Associate Justice) Hugo L. Black was at his best with a hostile witness, knowing well how to bait the trap, when to spring it. Senator Robert M. La Follette also knows the uses of the subtle query. Mr. Dies knows chiefly how to bellow. Last week he had the thrill of seeing his bellowing affect...
Malraux's masterpiece, Man's Fate, stayed close to the history of the Shanghai revolution of 1927, in its final chapters reached heights of intensity so moving that the book immediately took its place with the best of post-War fiction. In Man's Hope Malraux follows the same practice, but this time traces history in the making, convincingly dramatizes his theory that reporting by way of novels can result in works...
...been frustrated, pardon refused, when even suicide has been prevented and nothing remains but the certainty of execution. The questions that haunt his novels like a strain of sombre music are these: What happens to men when they know they will die with no chance to struggle against their fate? How do they meet their death? What remains in them when the last aspiration of their personal careers, their last hope for their cause, has disappeared? Thus he pictures the hero of Man's Fate, awaiting execution in a crowd of doomed...
...literary world that even his closest friends did not know where he lived. The Conquerors was followed by a mediocre adventure story laid in Indo-China, The Royal Way. In 1933 his wife, who translates books from German into French, bore him a daughter, Florence. When Man's Fate won the Goncourt Prize the same year, Malraux's popular success was assured. In the U. S. and England a good part of its popularity came from its superb translation, by University of California Professor Haakon Chevalier, who captured the distinctive quality of Malraux's prose, made...
...plea was sent to the U. S. Minister in Prague, Wilbur J. Carr, and finally the Czech War Ministry, acting with the Czech Red Cross, agreed to help. Food was hurried into the area and negotiations authorized with Germany regarding the refugees' fate...