Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, 97 percent of the officers feel that morale in the Service is poor. A leading scientist, as well, Vannevar Bush, has warned that our defense effort has been impaired by uncertainty and distrust arising from security restrictions--notably from revulsion at the fate of J. Robert Oppenheimer...
...anvil voice (with a nice built-in sob) led a lusty counterpoint melody between town and clown. But Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong as bandmaster and oldtime Circus Comic Buster Keaton were so much wasted tanbark. The "original" Jo Swerling-Hal Stanley music and lyrics had a too-familiar ring. ("If fate should hurt you/ I won't desert you/ We'll be together/ In stormy weather...
...might say." By contrast, Boston Barrister Joseph Welch, chatting graciously with Murrow from his eleven-room, 150-year-old Walpole, Mass, home, was funny and brimming with sweet charity. Said he: "If I go on having any more fun than I've had, I will have cheated fate itself...
...playing, Audrey catches the gamine qualities of Natasha, and her softness. What is lacking is the steely courage that would let Natasha brand her flesh with a red-hot iron to prove her love. Instead of a total commitment to life, there is more often a quiet acceptance of fate. Mel Ferrer's Prince Andrey has a certain sullen grandeur, but his diction is often unclear, and he is more wooden than reserved, more testy than proud. Henry Fonda's leanness at first seems all wrong for the massive, moonfaced, soul-tortured Pierre. But Fonda builds beautifully into...
...villain but because the nation needed a strong ruler. Richard reigned for two years before he got his comeuppance. During that time he "laid down a coherent program of legal enactments, maintained an orderly society, and actively promoted the well-being of his subjects." Besides, murder was "the accustomed fate of deposed monarchs . . . Edward II was murdered, perhaps by a red hot spit thrust up his bowel. Richard II was starved, poisoned or hacked by steel . . . The feeble-witted Henry VI ... put to silence." So, guilty or not guilty, Richard demands-through Historian Kendall-a measure of sympathy. His predecessors...