Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...focus for controversy, some of which persists in scholarly journals today. The implications of his method and vision, what he expected of the historian placed heavy demands on those who wrote (and read) history, demands that became clearer as he completed his largest work, Confucian China and its Modern Fate...
...hold only childhood glimpses; I was always too young to even care yet about ghosts with which he wrestled. But after ten years my inability to build a complete picture of the man seems somehow irrelevant. Paraphrasing the folk story with which he concluded Confucian China and its Modern Fate, we cannot perform that task, but we can tell the story of how it was done...
...Their fate may hang on the Teamsters' wage talks
...working, Israeli military forces on the West Bank and Gaza will be withdrawn behind Israel's 1949 borders. There will then begin a five-year transition period, during which the final status of the West Bank and Gaza will be negotiated. Still to be decided is the eventual fate of Israeli settlements and whether Israel will retain military outposts on the West Bank. If West Bank Palestinians refuse to participate in the talks, Begin agreed orally to let self-rule be established in Gaza. One of the trickiest issues, the status of predominantly Arab East Jerusalem, is not even...
...produced a tame and tactful film. However, most of Assault's quirky humor and antic allusiveness have been rubbed away, and Halloween, by comparison, is thinned by the expenditure of so much energy towards pure scariness. Carpenter flirts, here as in Assault, with some vaguely metaphysical notions about fate and death and evil, but you get the sense that he isn't really serious about it, and is merely doodling in the exceptionally wide margins of his plots...