Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...master of my fate,' he said, suddenly beating his breast. Irene laughed breathlessly. I only sighed and shook my head, reflecting how mistaken Frank was in what he had said...
...Americans "will be painful" but also "gradual, realistic?and, above all, fair." Well aware of the difficulties in getting his program through Congress, he predicted special-interest groups would proclaim "sacrifice is fine, as long as other people do it." Pointedly looking beyond Congress, Carter predicted that the fate of his plan "will not be decided here in Washington, but in every town and every factory, in every home and on every highway and every farm...
...part because the paradoxical balance of free enterprise and federal supervision, of expansion and conservation, must be maintained in the present America. The President might have been more accurate-if less inspiring-with the words of Novelist Henry James, William's brother: "It's a complex fate being an American." Stefan Kanfer
...Limits of a Vision by pointing out some of these surface similarities between the Freud and Erikson schools. Freud grounded his theory of the primacy of sexual drive in a new and suggestive vocabulary (libido, repression, transference, regression) that was assimilated widely, if often too crudely. The same fate has befallen Erikson's catch-words "identity crisis," "life cycle," and the adjective "psycho-social." Freud also cultivated his Vienna Circle, which he assembled to carry on his legacy after his death; while Erikson never has sought to institutionalize his influence in the same way, an informal school of sorts...
There are, of course, valid questions to be raised about the ERA'S impact. Among these: the status of women should the U.S. resume a military draft, the fate of laws that limit demands on the physical strength of women laborers, and the future of previously all-male sports like football at public schools. But in Florida, as in other states where the ERA has lost, the phantom issues, not the realities, carried the day. Complains the chairwoman of Georgia's ERA Council, Dotsie Holmes: "The legislators are all too willing to succumb to the hysterical group...