Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the National Science Foundation to analyze the light from a large number of galaxies--at least 1000, possibly 3000. Davis wants to use that information, combined with some principles of astrophysics, to estimate the mass of the universe, a figure that has implications for the universe's ultimate fate. If the universe, which is now expanding, is massive enough, it will ultimately stop expanding and draw itself back into the single ball from which astronomers agree it exploded...
...Eagle Has Landed proceeds from a preposterous premise. Some time late in World War II, half-mad Hitler conceives a plot to kidnap Winston Churchill and bring him to Berlin as a hostage against the fate that the dictator sees gathering for him. In preparing a feasibility study of this enterprise in order to placate the leader, German intelligence discovers that it actually is not such a bad idea after all. The movie -which shows how this crazy notion was placed in operation and damn near succeeded-is a good idea too. One almost comes to believe the source...
Costakis' apartment has long been a place of pilgrimage for art connoisseurs visiting Moscow. Nowhere else in the world could one see such, a concentration of major works by Russian artists whose output is still insufficiently known in the West. The eventual fate of the Costakis collection has therefore been a subject of much guesswork both in Russia and outside it, but now the question appears to be settled. Under the terms of an agreement with the Soviet Ministry of Culture, Costakis is giving about 300 paintings to the government, with the understanding that they will eventually be shown...
This week in Rome, Canales will again be mingling with some of the stars of the international swimming world. In his first Latin Cup he is unsure what his fate will be. "If I win a medal, I will be very happy," he said...
Posthumous selections of unpublished poetry should be viewed suspiciously. The dead poet may have had good aesthetic reasons for keeping some of his work to himself. Fortunately, Henry's Fate does not malign the memory of John Berryman, who five years ago committed suicide at age 57. Critic John Haffenden has gathered 45 "Dream Songs" written after 77 Dream Songs (1964) and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest (1968)-the two books that certified Berryman as a major American writer. Henry, the fast-talking middle-aged hero of the dream songs, continued to suffer and thrive in Berryman...