Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fate of a nation of merely 3,000,000, with a land mass of hardly 26,000 sq. mi., may seem like too trivial a matter for the world's concern these days. But we made peace, prosperity and independence viable for 22 years-until Russian imperialism made a shambles of it. Is it asking too much to want this again...
...Fate has a way of mocking early political forecasts and the TIME Poll, taken during the Eagleton imbroglio, clearly reflects a low point for McGovern. But the attitudes of the voters toward the candidates and the issues are hardly more encouraging for McGovern. They suggest that he is not only running behind Nixon but out of step with the average citizen. Among the poll's findings...
...years ago. Now they see his son as an appropriate successor. Addressing the massive rally. Prime Minister Michael Manley, 48, set forth what has become a chief theme of his young government: "What freedom really confers is the opportunity to be totally responsible for one's own fate...
...novel of ideas often suffers a fate similar to that of the goose destined for pâté de foie gras. Both are force-fed; both die sluggishly for the sake of a few rich morsels. Michel Tournier's The Ogre is engorged with ideas, which is one reason why it waddled off with France's 1970 Prix Goncourt. With unanimous praise from the critics ("The most important book to come out in France since Proust," said Janet Planner), the novel became a bestseller. It is not too difficult to see why. Its setting is World...
...mice gnawing through it from above. Represented by chattering dentures extended on long poles, they are about to sever his lifeline, when he spies a strawberry. Seizing and eating it, he reaches a complete enlightenment of Zen, found through the perfection of the fruit, and abandoning his mortal fate with a blissful cry of "Strawberry!", he drops to the waiting tigers below as the stage blacks...