Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...control. After it. he resorts to an old-fashioned plot development that is more fortuitous than convincing. Roger and Ida marry, and it turns out that she is being consumed by something more than love's fever-a mortal case of TB. A novel as sod-bitten and fate-haunted as Hardy's The Return of the Native thus veers towards a kind of rustic Camille. It is a token of the solidity of Author Nicholson's character-building that he can still make Ida's death moving without being sentimental, and Roger's reconciliation...
Again he takes a familiar, almost mythical theme, turns it upside down and irradiates it with originality. His hero is Morris Bober, an aging Brooklyn grocer who is clinging to solvency by his fingertips. But Morris is also that legendary Jewish figure of misfortune, the schlemiel, whose fate has been told and retold from the Old Testament to Sholom Aleichem. Bobers good intentions gain him nothing but hard knocks. The only dangers he escapes are imaginary ones. Yet, through all his woes, there shines unblinkingly the steady light of a good heart...
...daughter Helen has fallen in love with the new clerk. Morris fires him, but Frank comes back, dogged, penitent. In the end, by way of ultimate expiation, Frank gradually changes, and step by step becomes more and more like the grocer, assuming his burdens and his fate...
...quiz shows rigged? The quiz is too big a part of TV, the stakes are too high and the industry too wise to conspire with contestants to control the outcome. But there are many roundabout ways to change the fate of any quiz whiz on the high-priced shows. In their desire to keep their audiences, many producers use odd methods both to keep and lose contestants. For a heretofore untold story of how they do it, and the answer to a question that has tickled the curiosity of millions of TV watchers, see TV & RADIO, The $60 Million Question...
...only against those who besmirched it and discredited it, who shut their eyes, who tried to restrain the development of socialist progress and who played games with our faith. We made mistakes, but our aim and ambition were pure and honest. I do not worry about my own fate. One can get used to prison. But if I go to prison, my family-an ailing wife and three children-will break up. That does not mean I am asking for mercy. If this court has no confidence in me, then it should give me the most severe sentence...