Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fate of the city's neighborhoods, always an emotional topic, could also become an issue. Housing projects, both low-income and luxury high-rise, are springing up around the city and some candidates might try a "preserve Cambridge for the average people" approach...
...grandson of bricklayers, for 33 years one of the company's 3,000 employees, now a full-time "convenor" for the largest union at Rubery Owen, the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU)?* Whether such men can find some bond of common self-interest will determine the fate of Britain's economy and Wilson's Labor government−and quite possibly more. To help assess the conflict, TIME London Correspondent William McWhirter spent two weeks with managers and workers, observing a company at war with itself...
Both Owen and Peach link−and sometimes identify−the fate of Rubery Owen with the fate of Britain. Both, in their distinctly separate ways, share a sense of loss about the nation as well as the company...
...their own young lives. The difference is that the odds of escape are even heavier against the blacks. They have to fight their poverty and the everyday threat of their streets even to get a chance. The Graffiti kids never really knew they had a chance. They took their fate-and everything else-for granted, which is a different kind of tragedy. Around Cooley High, you either knuckle under or you fight back...
Cavafy is a laureate of loss: loss of youth, loss of love, loss of existence. Some poets seem to be peering at the dawn of the world; Cavafy stares at its doom, a weary Olympian contemplating the "toys of fate." With age, the poet might have become a complete Cassandra of declivity. But he never relinquished his belief in the power of the artist to transform the sordid into the contemplative serenity of beauty...