Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...front, as the seconds ticked toward curtain time, the first-night audience fell into a tense and unaccustomed hush. They liked Julie's nerve, but they feared her fate. They remembered, too, the Joans of Katharine Cornell (1936), of Ingrid Bergman (1946) and of Uta Hagen (1951). Could Julie top them? The auguries had been uncertain. "Joan of Arc was put into history," one critic had said grandly, "so that Julie Harris could play the part." However, the play had proved a flop in London with another Joan, and the table talk at Sardi's had it that...
...Chopin's spinet and Mozart's harpsichord. ("Mozart," he confides, "became a great composer. He was decorated by the Pope.") And then, as he plays Liebestraum ("A dream of love," he sighs in explanation) on Liszt's own instrument, Pianist Warrin proposes. She accepts, but fate comes between them: the pianist begins to go deaf...
...Gilmore feels that fate keeps him from indulging his teaching and scholarly interests as much as he would like. His particular nemesis has been his administrative ability. At present, head of the History Department, he has also served as chairman of History and Literature and on numerous Faculty committees. When World War II broke out, it was inevitable that this ability would not be ignored, and he was soon commissioned into the Navy. For once, however, Uncle Sam did not turn a cook into a barber. In 1942 he assumed command of an LMD --a Large Mahogany Desk...
...Verdict. The tribunal, six years after the first testimony was taken, accomplished what it had set out to do: it formally found that Joan of Arc had been wrongfully condemned. And the record noted with satisfaction the evil fate that had befallen three of the chief figures in her trial: Bishop Cauchon died suddenly while a barber was trimming his beard, Canon Jean d'Estivet, the "promoter," i.e., prosecutor, disappeared mysteriously and his body was discovered in a gutter, and their right-hand man, Nicolas Midy, was stricken with leprosy...
...gets her. It seems he is worried about his good name, and to keep the actress from talking to his wife, he kills her-which doesn't help his good name any, when he is found out. The Vise describes this resolution as "the inexorable qualities of fate as it closes in on men and women when they attempt to tamper with destiny...