Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comic effects, e.g., King Solomon's staccato outbursts, and included some melodious arias which went down like whipped cream. The moral is sung by the prophet, who is young and just getting started in the business: "Whether we prognosticate/grief or joy/for love or hate/prophets sing the will of fate...
JACOPO da Ponte suffered an unhappy fate. He painted in Venice at the same time as Titian and Tintoretto. It was enough to depress even the most talented artist, and 16th century Venetian dandies did not help matters by sneering that Jacopo was "full of provincial sap." Jacopo despondently returned to his nearby native town, whose name, Bassano, became his own because he rarely signed his work, and when he did. merely brushed the modest words. "Jack, by the bridge at Bassano...
...André Malraux, onetime fighter pilot with the Loyalists in Spain's civil war, and internationally famed art critic, would eventually zero in on Francisco Goya. An illness deafened Goya in his 40s and turned him from pleasant art to black indictments of man's inhumanity and fate's immutability. Believing that Napoleon's invasion of Spain in 1808 spelled liberation, Goya at first collaborated. Inevitable disillusion further deepened his pessimism. Malraux, too, had a severe comeuppance in middle age when his Communist leanings proved to have been a flirtation with the devil. Thereafter, he turned...
...from the horror to come; they go on as they always have-sailing, giving parties, worrying when their small daughter has a sore throat or fever. Moira Davidson at first seems to drink too much, but a Platonic relationship with Commander Towers soon settles her into the resigned-to-fate mold of the others...
Erick's Francophile father had been killed fighting with the Germans against the French. His own fate is equally clouded. With no faith or much hope he fights as a young officer against the Reds. Symbolically, the fortunes of war drive him to Kratovits, where he had spent a happy boyhood as a friend of Conrad, heir to the Counts of Reval. For Conrad and Erick there is nothing to do but to fight on fatalistically. Conrad is all gallantry, but his sister Sophie almost welcomes the destruction of their life...