Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barge they pick up a shipwrecked sailor, who promptly falls in love with the girl and, after some soul-searching and recriminations, marries her. It's as simple as that, but by means of some effective symbolism and characterization as well as his gloomy view of the fate which brings the pair together, O'Neill injected a good deal of power into the staggering plot. In a musical, however, you just don't explore the possibility of portraying the wickedness offered in the girl's career; you don't use fate except as a rhyme in a song; and above...
...bakers handed the opposition Socialist Party a made-to-order issue by jumping the price of bread. Last week, as the soap and furniture makers followed the bakers' lead, the Socialists talked ominously of spreading inflation and accused Erhard of "quietly leaving the consumer to his fate...
...well that he stayed on after the French withdrew from Morocco. Then the Moroccan "Army of Liberation" came to pillage Tarjicht, and nine months ago Captain Moureau disappeared. But the desert has its verbal grapevine, and over this came, piece by piece, news of Captain Moureau's fate: emasculated, both arms broken, he was, when last seen alive, on exhibition in an animal's cage, chained hand and foot, dressed in the travesty of a French uniform, with an obscene inscription pinned to his back...
...painting that proved to be his turning point was Franz Marc's Fate of the Animals, done just before World War I. Standing before it, Hartung found that "the more I looked, the more the animals annoyed me. I forced myself to overlook them, and back home I tried to express the same rhythm with color only, without using animals or any other objects...
...right to die as he wished to, when he chose." She knows that this claim is based on pride: several times during the last painful months, the Wertenbakers gaily toasted what they called their hubris, a word which they thought defined their own gallant pagan defiance of fate. Each reader will have to judge the moral issue for himself; the real significance lies in the fact that, in this book, the issue is only seen in terms of responsibility to oneself and to other human beings, never in terms of responsibility to God. Readers may salute Charles Wertenbaker...