Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dies, Faisal wants to pray once more at the mosque in Jerusalem near the Dome of the Rock, revered by Moslems as Mohammed's steppingstone to heaven. But the King refuses to journey to the ancient city as long as it is held by the Israelis. The fate of the refugees is another bitter problem...
...will probably be living in Los Angeles." Lena is enjoying what may turn out to be a short career. The Solomons have refused her singing lessons because they fear training would remove her voice's earthy appeal. Thus Lena is in danger of losing her voice entirely, a fate that befell another Solomon prodigy, Neil Reed, a twelve-year-old who apparently started croaking after a mere eight months. However, said Phil, "girls' voices are supposed to hold up longer than boys...
...Fate and politics have a way sometimes of cheating would-be martyrs. Belfast's Price sisters-Dolours, 23, and Marion, 20-were sentenced last Nov. 15 to life in prison for their part in the March 1973 London car bombings that injured 238 persons and led to the fatal heart attack of another. In an effort to gain attention for their Irish Republican cause and force British authorities to return them to Ulster for the rest of their prison term, the sisters pursued a grim path toward self-imposed death: for seven months they systematically starved themselves...
That sly, unpredictable and difficult old Dutch master of abstract expressionism, Willem de Kooning, turned 70 this year. Ever since the '40s it has been De Kooning's fate, as Harold Rosenberg once observed, to be considered in decline; almost every change in his art, from the Women series of 1951 to the gnarled, glowering bronze figures that occupy him now, has been greeted as a retreat from some previous aesthetic win. Embracing contradictions, De Kooning refuses to be typecast. "I think," he declared in 1949, "it is the most bourgeois idea to think one can make...
Families are a funny breed. They draw, spill, suck and drink the blood they share. They seem to survive everything with dumb granitic tenacity. What they give to each other is measureless, like divine grace; what they take is inexorable, like mortal fate...