Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...literal description from the uncouth men the murderers must have been. The next line is a piece of cruel humour that must have struck terror into the young boy's heart as he realized his fate...
...cobras in the worst floods since 1871. In the coastal state of Orissa, eight rivers thundered simultaneously into spate, killing at least 150, inundating 3,500 sq. mi. of drought-seared cropland. The state's 138 legislators dropped everything and rushed homeward to find out their families' fate...
...escape both from the existentialists ("Negation is their God") and from God. Things would be for the best in the worst of all possible worlds, says Camus, on one condition: man must admit that life has meaning only when he recognizes that it has no meaning. Man's fate, according to Camus, is best symbolized by Sisyphus, the Greek hero who was condemned by the gods to roll a great boulder to the top of a hill. The gods saw to it that it always rolled down again, till the end of time...
Camus pushes these questions up the fashionable modern Parnassus-inhabited by Dostoevsky, Kafka, Gide, and all manner of existentialists. In the end, a little existentialist moss clings to his rolling stone, and Camus achieves his answer: "Crushing truths perish by being acknowledged . . . There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn." Sisyphus has achieved "a total absence of hope (which has nothing to do with despair)." Rope or Cravat? While it is no news, of course, that French intellectuals of the Left have left the church, a lot of people will wish that they would stop arguing so noisily...
...radio stations are looking for television competition in a saturated area, and equally few want to broadcast the games which television would have. Meanwhile, the faculty committee on athletics deliberates the fate of the Saturday afternoon stay-at-home