Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...author, who earlier wrote The Great Auk, laments the fate of the passenger pigeon, whose species numbered in the millions before man trapped, bludgeoned and shot the bird into extinction...
...President: "We can and will do it." The decision, of course, was taken out of home-front hands by the U.S. Army, which by Jan. 3, 1945 had stopped Hitler's panzer divisions and allowed the Allied attack to roll forward again, thus sparing Germany the worse fate of atomic devastation...
...mawkish in its Fidelity for a tough guy like Che, too humble for a man who once snickered that Fidel joined in only one battle of the revolution, and that "proved a failure." Nor did it explain anything about Che's fate-except that he was out of power in Cuba...
...court achieved something significantly different in the case of Belgian Journalist Raymond De Becker, a wartime German collaborator who had been deprived for life of most of his civil liberties. The very fact that the court was pondering the Belgian law that authorized De Becker's fate prodded Belgium into striking it off the books-thus rendering the case moot...
Their marriage trembles when Charulata falls in love with Bhupati's poet brother, as a refuge from her barrenness. At the end, however, the husband and wife manage to find love within the conventions of marriage, by accepting not their fate but each other. In Charulata Ray is reiterating a long-standing theme--that no circumstances are too dire to preclude happiness. The director's constant optimism becomes especially impressive in the context of modern India...