Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pitted an eloquence doomed to be soon silenced. (At week's end, Malraux, although retained in the Cabinet, was relieved of his post as spokesman for the De Gaulle government.) Malraux is the author of some of the most influential French novels of this century (Man's Fate, Man's Hope), an erudite art historian (The Voices of Silence, The Metamorphosis of the Gods), and an old revolutionist who served in the Chinese Civil War of 1927 and the Spanish Civil War, still limps from leg wounds suffered during his days as "Colonel Berger" of the World...
...Kennedy-Ives proposal to strike the requirement from the law as "ineffective." Aiming at correcting labor abuses by requiring 1) periodic secret-ballot union elections, 2) regular union reporting to the U.S. Labor Department on financial and other dealings, the bill now goes to the House, where its fate, in an election year, is doubtful...
Obviously, the god has preserved him for a better fate, and she soon appears in the startling form of Morgana (Janet Leigh), a captured Welsh princess. Einar drools by the barrel, but before he can sully her honor, she has fled with Eric. "Let's not question our flesh," he tells her, "for wanting to remain flesh." Thereupon he bends the oar for a not very merry England, where after interminable bouts of slashing and bashing, swilling and swiving, everybody seems to go positively berserk with happiness-except possibly the adult members of the audience...
Died. Sam Higginbottom, 83, onetime (1939-40) Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., longtime missionary to India, former president of Allahabad Christian College; after a heart attack; in Port Washington, N.Y. British-born, U.S.-educated Sam Higginbottom, distressed by man's fate in the India he first visited in 1903 ("In those villages it took no effort to die"), studied agriculture at Ohio State University, returned to introduce crop rotation, irrigation and contour farming...
...named Emmanuel Ringelblum, a teacher of history; he recalls Noach Levinson, hero of John Mersey's bestselling novel, The Wall, who was supposed to have preserved archives of the Warsaw ghetto. In 1939 Ringelblum was safe in Switzerland, but he went back home to Warsaw to share the fate of his fellow Jews, and to record the manner of their end. Ringelblum and his friends recruited a kind of intelligence staff who, with fantastic dedication, took time off from the task of survival to write notes on what they saw and suffered...