Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your coverage of the so-called "oppressed" German-speaking South Tyrol Italian subjects is paradoxical [March 9]. The record of the Austrian government in dealing with Slovenian and Croat (ethnically Slavic) minorities reveals an amazing degree of similarity to the fate of German-speaking South Tyroleans under Italian rule. Perhaps one method to resolve this so-called "crisis" of German-speaking South Tyroleans under Italian rule is exactly what the Austrian provincial authorities have done with its Slovenian and Croat minorities, i.e., forced (direct and indirect) assimilation or immigration...
Just what this encouragement amounted to became evident in a letter a Hungarian villager recently slipped out to a friend abroad: "Again today eight people have been taken to the party district committee. You cannot imagine what their fate will be. G. was cruelly beaten yesterday. His hair was torn out, and he was kicked and then sat upon. The poor man continued to say, 'I won't sign.' In A. [a neighboring village] things are the same. They beat up 29 people and forced them to join collectives. There is not a day that passes that...
...each other, to be reconciled to each other's existence. Often in the modern western a sudden sympathy flashes between hero and villain, as though somehow they feel themselves to be secret sharers in a larger identity. Often the hero cannot bring himself to kill the villain until fate forces his hand, and then he performs the act almost like a religious sacrifice (Shane...
...ends of painting by TIME's Art Editor Alexander Eliot (Three Hundred Years of American Painting). Highly personal, aphoristic, poetic, Sight and Insight shuns critical pedantries in art to speak of bigger things-life and death, God and man, the wisdom of children, the power of dreams, love, fate, and the human soul...
...profoundest level is a school for heroes, what is the hero's role? He is the touchstone of man's fate, argues Eliot. "We know our fate is of each moment, we know it is eternal, and we know what it is. Ever since classical times we have known what man's fate is. We have known it in our hearts and we have acted upon it. Man's fate is to be free...