Word: fated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...downward mobility, when a middle class eager to stem a free fall will grasp at affordable luxuries. They can't afford 500 acres in Shropshire, or even a house as big as their parents', but there is some solace in growing their own endive. For those anxious about the fate of the family, the garden at least offers the illusion of control, of nurturing something that won't run wild the minute it reaches adolescence. Those nostalgic for a simple, agrarian past can siphon the sense of virtue attached to the idea of a family farm, like Marie Antoinette tending...
Thom Jones' justly praised first book was a collection of strong, hard-edged short stories called The Pugilist at Rest. The title was descriptive. Most of the characters were onetime boxers or soldiers, and there was a quality of rest -- of fate and damage accepted -- to the predicaments they described. The stories in the author's second collection, Cold Snap (Little, Brown; 240 pages; $19.95), are at least as powerful and as gritty with existential courage. But they are also rowdier, messier with life...
...Fate would have it differently, however. Late in the first extra period, freshman Toure McCluskey sent sophomore Kevin Silva on a breakaway towards the Brown goal...
However, good fate intervened and gave the Crimson one more game in the 1994 season--an NCAA Tournament game, Harvard's first since...
However, it is always the fate of the Harvard women's lacrosse team to be known for its defeats rather than its victories. Losses to Yale, Princeton (for the third year in a row), Maryland, Dartmouth and a season-finale disaster at Brown mark the season...