Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will undoubtedly argue that the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan should be linked with Hashemite Iraq. Neighboring Syria would also like to gobble up Jordan in a greater Syria. The U.S. may soon find that the first task of its new Middle Eastern policy will be to arbitrate the fate of Jordan...
Sullivan Sans Gilbert? As a composer, Bernstein has suffered one curious fate: his serious music, at least, is almost never played by others. If Conductor Bernstein did not come to the aid of Composer Bernstein, it might never get played at all. The main case that can be made against his music is that it is eclectic?and Bernstein knows it. Sometimes, when he hears a piece of music he particularly likes, he will exclaim: "God, that's wonderful. I must write something like it." He can put on any musical mask he chooses: he has successfully written boogie-style...
...clipper?is too romantic a figure for modern fashion in literary heroes. Yet in his work, Conrad was not a romantic any more than Melville was a mere spinner of "sea yarns" or Shakespeare only a writer of historical pageants. His themes were the classic themes of character and fate, and his genius made the ships on which he sailed as tight as the "wooden O" of the Globe Theater...
...What? Incest again?" fans of Ivy Compton-Burnett will cry upon opening Brothers and Sisters. Again an old desk, locked for decades, containing a letter containing the terrible truth? Again a hard fate visiting the sins of the father upon the children...
...tells the princesses that their country's religion, which revolves around a shapeless stone earth-mother deity named Ungit, is a pack of lies. But Ungit's priests bully the king into offering up Psyche as a human sacrifice to redeem the kingdom from an ill fate. The heartbroken Orual makes a pilgrimage to recover her sister's bones from the mountain site of the sacrifice, and to her amazement finds Psyche luminously alive. Through Psyche's newly gained mystical vision, Orual is given a glimpse of paradise, but rejects it as an insane mirage...