Word: fatedness
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Political discussion here seems to center around to extremes: raucous bull-sessions at one end, and academic lectures at the other. Generally unheard are the sounds of students arguing with students in large, organized meetings. Yale has its Political Union, and Princeton its Senate, but Harvard has only the memory...
Most interesting of the teleplays was Man on Spikes, presented on NBC's Goodyear Television Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., E.D.T.). It was the story of an aging baseball player who is good enough for the majors, but fated by managerial decision never to get out of the bush leagues...
Question: Gaza, a Greek scholar of the fifteenth century said that if all the books of the world were on a ship fated to be wrecked and he could save only one author, Plutarch would be the one. Under similar circumstances which two or three books would you save?
Taking the Lumps. Men and women, she argues, are fated to get into an inextricable situation called life, from which, obviously, only death can release them.
But people refuse to accept this fact: they struggle to release themselves by trying to make their lives different from what they are fated to be. This struggle, enacted with Greek gravity and formality, is invariably the theme of a Compton-Burnett novel. The skill she exhibits in playing witty...