Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last moment, but he was known to be anguished over the evidence, and the mere possibility of so important a conservative Republican leader abandoning Nixon doubtless deeply alarmed the White House. Rhodes' support cannot save Nixon in the House, but his defection could very well seal his fate in the Senate...
Rhodes fully understands the potential impact of his decision on the President's fate, acknowledging that the Republican leader of the chamber constitutionally charged with the power of impeachment has a unique, if not altogether enviable position. The more prudent course might have been for him to remain silent for the moment, saying only that he would make his decision when necessary, on what he judged to be the merits of the case. But, as he told TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil in an interview last week, because of his "unique position," he is more mindful than most Republicans...
Kinue's madness, and her assumed beauty, are equated with Toru's self-awareness and Honda's perception of unyielding fate. "Don't you suppose a beautiful, well-shaped girl has the best chance of becoming an angel?" she asks Toru. "Only a beautiful woman can really know...
...Honda's mind, the being that he has encountered in Kiyoaki and the rest is an angel of the Six Worlds of Desire. To save Toru from the angel's recurring fate he must steal its wings, for "the world does not approve of flying...
Toru, however, is no angel, but coldly and thoroughly evil. From the first moment in his new father's house, he begins scheming to destroy him and the others around him. Toru has himself an awareness of his own fate, but that awareness is demented by the fate itself--for he may be an angel, but a decaying one. Told the real reason for his adoption by a friend, Toru attempts suicide but succeeds only in blinding himself...