Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group of horrified alumni gathered in consultation. To uplift the theatrical standards, they hired the director of the Princeton Triangle shows to coach the Pudding's next effort. After only a few rehearsals, the new director, bewildered at the haphazardness of the show, resigned himself to fate. "I give up!" he exclaimed. "At Princeton we put these plays on for money, while it seems that Harvard boys only put them...
...Twist of Fate. In Newark, Leroy Bonner, 24, confessed that he had robbed a local gas station and diner, told the cops that he had turned to crime because he just couldn't make a living baking, bending and selling pretzels...
...called Aesop's Last Fable, in which the bemused peasantry, irritated at the fabulist's inability to give a straight answer to a straight question, throw him over a cliff. Here March seems to indicate his sad beliefs as to the function and fate of the writer who says unwelcome things. As for the short stories, many of them concern madness and abnormality, and are set in a shambling Southern town called Reedyville. They have the sincere hysteria of a man recounting an intolerable experience to indifferent ears. Although his work was something less than first-rate...
...honeymoon-not, however, with each other. The trouble with Harry is that he can only really enjoy himself if he knows he's being wicked. In Paris, he tries "laughing Simone from Marseille, a specialist in net underwear . . . and Mamai and Lisa and Danielle and Monique." His real fate, however, is a Roman prostitute called Dorotea-an "enigmatic goddess," whose "hair quivered slightly at the roots...
...kulaks exterminated: to believe all this, even unanimously-above all unanimously-must lead a people to catastrophe . . . Hamlet is frequently cited as an example of the tragedy caused by thought not followed by action, but, as Bertrand Russell judiciously observes, the totalitarians ought rather to meditate upon the fate of Othello, on the disasters provoked by action not preceded by thought...