Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moscow, by contrast, the story was, as Pravda put it, "one more page illustrating the tragic fate of American dissidents who could not find a place for themselves in America." The Soviets made no martyr of Jones, however, describing him as "a skillful, cynical operator who cannily took advantage of the massive disillusionment of Americans with their government and the whole American way of life...
Several tougher questions by the King involved the nature of sovereignty for the West Bank and Gaza, the future status of Israeli settlements and security forces in these areas, and the fate of predominantly Arab East Jerusalem. Washington's answers reiterate familiar positions, but it is easy to see why the U.S. phrasing irritated the Israelis...
...Tegeus, or as he is called by Dynamane, Cromus, a steedly Hoplite who blunders into the whole affair and falls in love with Dynamane. Using this simple plot and character framework, Fry works much mischief on the classical tragic genre with overblown and thoroughly ludicrous speeches on honor, fate, love and life. His parodies of Greek tragic conventions sometimes tend to be either too subtle or too overdone but in general the play keeps up a lively pace, largely because Fry knows that words like "come" get a laugh--legitimate or not--if they are repeated suggestively throughout the script...
This afternoon a small undergraduate committee will meet to decide the fate of the undergraduate post of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR)--a committee whose purposes and legitimacy in the eyes of many undergraduates were questioned by the resignation of its sole undergraduate member on Wednesday...
...appears to concentrate exclusively on maintaining his accent. While much of the plot revolves around him, he never suitably explains or justifies his involvement in the whole business--or his determination to be hanged. Harper's characterization is too indifferent to convince observers that he cares about his fate or that of anyone else. He registers all emotion by waving his arms and pacing around the stage, though it seems strange that the most sullen character in the play is also the most animated...