Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was plenty of good will on display for the delegation of eight U.S. Congressmen and their aides, headed by Mississippi Democrat Gillespie V. ("Sonny") Montgomery. The Americans were on a six-day tour of Viet Nam and Laos, investigating the fate of 340 U.S. servicemen still listed officially as missing in action during the Viet Nam War.* At the first talk between Vietnamese officials and Montgomery's contingent, Deputy Foreign Minister Phan Hien announced that the bodies of eleven of the M.I.A.s had been recovered, and at week's end the remains were ferried home. Montgomery concluded from...
...these instruments find strong evidence of a black hole, how significant would that discovery be? For one thing, proof of the existence of black holes would clear away some of the mystery about both the evolution and the fate of the universe. Scientists generally agree that the universe is expanding, that its galaxies are still rushing outward from the original Big Bang. But they are uncertain about whether the expansion will continue forever. True, gravitational attraction among the galaxies is slowing the outward rush, but unless there is sufficient mass in the universe, the expansion will never completely halt...
This demonstration of how philosophy informs "the whole life of humanity" is no academic exercise. Barrett is convinced that the history of ideas foreshadows the fate of the Western world. His vision of the future, in both its American and Russian versions-Skinner's programmed Utopia vs. the triumph of Soviet totalitarianism-sometimes sounds like a science-fiction scenario. A former Marxist, Barrett shares with other victims of the god that failed a dramatic anxiety about the menace of Communism...
...choice but to hazard-on the road, in factories, in the natural environment, even in the field of speculative finance. But plainly, the spreading eagerness to avoid all risks and to find culprits for all injuries is going too far. The attitude rests on a refusal to to accept fate or personal folly as the real source of many of life's bumps. It is as if society is beset by the Utopian dream of a world that is free, if not of risks, then of all individual responsibility for those taken and lost...
...wonders about Michael Caine, the entomologist leading the fight against the winged villains. His lines suggest that there is more to his involvement with the bees than scientific concern, but we never find out what on earth is bugging him. It seems to be Caine's sad fate to go around being intelligent in dumb movies...