Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exact fate of his machines is unknown. He hopes to find a college somewhere, possibly Harvard, which would consent to conduct a test...
Visiting Stockholm last week, aging (71) Hungarian Communist George Lukacs added a grim footnote to Pravda's recent belated praise of Bela Run, famed leader of the unsuccessful Hungarian revolution of 1919. Bela Run, whose fate has been one of the mysteries of international Communism, was secretly tried and executed by Stalin's order in 1938, said Lukacs. Wiped out with Bela Run, he added, were a hundred other Hungarian Communists and "the entire Polish Communist leadership" numbering several hundred men. According to approving George Lukacs: "The Russians are now going to rehabilitate their victims in enormous numbers...
...almost breaks up the picture. And at the end, as he staggers across the battlefield in desperate pursuit of the money, of the future that blows away from him forever, the audience is confronted with an image that may almost suggest the mindless immensity of man's fate...
...issues debated are "no longer central to our fate," he continued, and the emergence of critical new questions in the field of foreign policy requires a new consensus of political thought and probably a new political alignment...
Book Gresham's evil power is opposed by Brother Cox, the "webbed faced" preacher who tries to close the valley honky-tonk but loses his "holy war agin sin" when Book frames him for "a sight of carrying-on'' with a no-good girl. Fate Laird takes on too much when he gives Bodoc a job and takes the preacher's side against the courthouse-cathouse gang. Laird's son Clay shoots a mean deputy and is convicted of murder in Book Gresham's court. But in the end a sort of moral truce...