Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Opera for Marriage. The Hands are a sharp contrast to the Dukes, a pair so steeped in inherited wealth and social know-how that their palms might very likely include a Reception Line, etched in somewhere between Life and Fate. Lloyd Hand is the son of a steelworker who began as a laborer for Sheffield Steel (now part of Armco Steel Corp.) in Alton, Ill., became a rolling-mill supervisor, and was sent to the company's new branch in Houston when young Lloyd was ten. Lloyd was the first member of his family to attend college. He worked...
...same wild and brutalized rabble roils through the pages of the book. All are lit up as if by the lurid flare of torches and burning towns and the intermittent flash of gunpowder. Even the occasional brave or intelligent man is no more in control of his fate than any of the others. After a while the reader begins desperately to wish that the author had not torn up all those streets in his model world: the novel is fascinating, brilliant, but exasperatingly trackless...
...previous U.S.-Belgian Stanleyville massacre was not an adequate paratroop exercise, consider the fate of the defenseless and dedicated Peace Corps workers, Missionaries, U.S.-A.I.D. personnel, and teachers that are overseas. As much as we appreciate their contributions and unselfish dedication to their work, we regret to say the State Department and C.I.A. are constantly undoing and abusing their contributions to Africa...
Recent talks between Presidents Christopher Gbenye, Jomo Kenyatta, Julius Lyere, and Premier Milton Obote marked the beginning of African solidarity and a concerted effort to nip in the bud such crude and blatant neocolonialism in Africa. The fate of Tshombe is clearly discernable. In the next few months Congolese nationalists will be well armed and trained, and it will be extremely difficult for Tshombe and his American, Belgian, and South African mercenaries to hold their...
...those unavoidable childhood illnesses and amounts to nothing more than a seven-day siege of spots and fever with no lasting ill effects, but doctors know better. Every year, thousands or tens of thousands of children develop pneumonia from measles, and many of them die. Even worse is the fate of many of the 4,000 or so each year who develop encephalitis and do not die but are doomed to spend the rest of their lives in homes for the mentally retarded. Between its killing and crippling effects, measles has always been a more serious disease than polio ever...