Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...daredevil called The Great Leslie, he wears nothing but white, performs death-defying feats with never a hair misplaced nor a dirty fingernail. From time to time his teeth literally sparkle. Jack Lemmon, reading his lines at a steady 130 decibels, is the spoof villain. As black-clad Professor Fate, equipped with a stovepipe hat, a moustache to twirl and gnomish assistant (Peter Falk), he is forever launching devilish devices against Leslie and forever being Foiled Again. Natalie Wood is a pert, cigar-puffing suffragette who goes along as girl reporter on the great automobile race from New York...
Emerson called him "the greatest writer who ever lived." Claudel considered him a "great solemn ass." Jung pronounced him "a prophet." Evelyn Waugh dismissed him as a "wayward dabbler in philosophy." Valery said he was "one of the luckiest throws that fate has ever allowed the human race to make...
...grimly, "like the rim of a wheel that goes round and round and never gets nearer to the axle." Was marriage what he needed? He got himself engaged, but had nightmares in which his fiancee tried to shut him up in a sack. Was a job what he needed? Fate made him an offer, and he took...
...Market's current crisis of his own contrivance (see WORLD BUSINESS), the pièce was that old favorite, NATO. "In 1969 at the latest," De Gaulle intoned, "will cease for us the subordination termed 'integration' which is provided for by NATO and which puts our fate in the hands of foreigners." It was a nice-ringing nationalistic sentence, but it didn't have much sting. De Gaulle's dislike of the French army's participation in NATO's integrated command structure is well known. But also, as everybody knows, France would stand...
...newspaper copyreader," wrote the late New York Herald Tribune City Editor Stanley Walker, "doubtless deserves better from fate than he has received. He is completely anonymous. His job usually is monotonous. His deft touches with a pencil may raise a story out of the ordinary, but it is the handsome, much-publicized reporter who gets the credit. The copyreader sits on the rim of the horseshoe desk, does his stint, and then goes home...