Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Galileo is about both the unreason able fate of reason and the attempts to thwart and subvert truth. Knowledge and truth, for Brecht, would ultimately be nurtured and fueled by the proletariat, the working man being the true repository of hope. This seems a pretty romantic proposition, especially for a man who had dedicated himself to abolishing every article of romantic faith. But Brecht knew well, and portrayed with ruthless accuracy, the inbred conservatism of power, the stale air of the cloister that can smother the free, creative spirit. What makes Galileo impor tant, finally, is its ironic accounting...
Seven straight points by sophomore Doc Hines wiped out a five point Cornell lead fate in the first half Friday night and sparked the Crimson...
...fate of the institute, the Phillips Research Foundation, Lincoln Open University (which suspended operations Jan. 3) and the Lowthers now depends on audits and investigations by the IRS and the Illinois attorney general. For his part, Sam Gould can only say, "The whole thing is embarrassing...
Lazarus, an American Jew, gently suggested that the Israelis' belief that they can master any situation may have produced some scapegoating after the Yom Kippur War. His reasoning: if a war goes badly, a people who deeply believe their fate is in their own hands have no one to blame but their leaders. He also feels that Israelis may be employing "middle knowledge"-a term which refers to the process by which a dying person suppresses knowledge of his predicament in order to maintain hope...
...them in the first eight minutes of battle. Before the fight, a young West Pointer noticed "that the men were calmly writing their names and home addresses on slips of paper and pinning them on the backs of their coats, so that their bodies might be recognized and their fate made known to their families at home." A bloodstained diary taken from a dead Federal had this final entry: "June 3. Cold Harbor. I was killed...