Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must be mine or die upon the rack, if I want you, Keats' cry rings through the ages. Why should Jaromil be jealous? The redhead girl now belongs to him more than ever. Her fate was his creation. It was his eye watching her as she urinated into the pail; it was his hand touching her when a guard treated her roughly. She was his victim, his creation; she was his, his, totally...
Life is Elsewhere won Kundera the Medici Literary award for the best foreign novel published in France, a sign of international recognition and interest for his work as well as the efforts of a whole generation of writers whose fate is so closely parallel with that of their country...
...lustful man on the make. The Middle of the World beckons with the promise of that all-too-rare film that synthesizes the two great battles of life, the political and the sexual. The action moves from the smoky back room, where cynical machine men map out the fate of society, to the honky tonk cafe, where a tacit smile and a pair of pretty legs determine the fate of individuals, and in the process we seem to get a valuable glance into the multi-dimensional world of both man as social animal and man as existential wanderer...
When the first convoy of 25 trucks reached its destination, said Sapper, there was "an indescribable happiness walking across that bridge into Thailand," but also a terrible regret because "I left behind too many people who I know will not come out well." At the moment, indeed, the fate of the Cambodian people that he and other foreigners left behind is an agonizingly unanswerable question. The makeup of the new government is not yet clear, and the danger of factional fighting appears great. A fortnight ago, the Khmer Rouge leadership reportedly held a "national congress" in Phnom-Penh, with Khieu...
...Communist takeover. Weeks later, Mindszenty and his bishops issued a pre-election pastoral letter urging Christians to vote against parties that used "violence and oppression." The Communists drew a dismal 17% of the vote, and when he persisted in opposition while they consolidated their power, the cardinal's fate was certain...