Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fate that, at 83, Callahan is known almost entirely by his work. But it is work of sufficient power and mystery to have opened up some new lines of feeling in 20th century photography, above all a kind of dry-eyed romanticism, subdued but haunting. In his matter-of-fact pictures of his naked wife or in his radiant seascapes, the world is both plain and pregnant with hidden meaning. Everything is seen through the filter of his yearning for understandings that are always just out of reach. The Callahan retrospective that continues through May 19 at the National Gallery...
...size of financial aid packages for Harvard students will not be affected regardless of the fate of the direct lending program, Miller said...
...randomized into Currier House two years ago, in an era when "randomization" was a word filled with fear and being "Quadded" was a fate worse than death. That year, one-eighth of my classmates were plunked into houses they did not mention on their rooming forms. My blocking group of eight did not put down a "Quad-buster" as one of our four choices; we chose the standard Lowell, Eliot, Kirkland and Winthrop. But given that we were lottery number 383 out of 393, I don't think it mattered much...
...administration "taking away free choice" and "not treating us like adults." Those of us who were randomized under the old system never got any choice to begin with. We were all given the facade of choice, but when the slip came in, all semblance of determining our own fate-went out the window...
...feel anger, pain and shame at the demise of the great Soviet Union and the decline of their own personal fortunes. One recruit is Alexei Podberyozkin, chairman of a patriotic political organization called the Spiritual Heritage Movement, who argues, "Russia is an empire. It is Russia's historic fate that it cannot exist on any other scale." Says General Makashov: "Russia will be restored to its historic borders...