Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sorry," says the young woman (Kyoko Kishada), who lives alone in the sand pit. "You cannot leave." Again and again he tries, again and again he fails. Slowly, through long years of suffering, he learns to relinquish his will, to accept his fate. In the end, serene as a sage, he fathoms a great mystery of life: a man is not free unless his will is free, but if his will is free it does not matter if his body is bound...
...such luck. The ape woman dies in childbirth. The spiv, robbed by a cruel fate of his bearded breadwinner, faces destitution-or even employment. But at the last minute he is saved by a master stroke of showmanship: he discovers that the public, which paid good money to see the ape woman alive, will also pay good money to see her dead...
...Anderson (Treasury) and Marion B. Folsom (Health, Education and Welfare), into the Cabinet room to pose for pictures, then sent them on their way with a parting pep talk: "In the year of 1964, we are not determining the future of our parties. But we are determining the fate and fortune of America itself-and of the cause we are privileged to lead. I commend all of you not only on the choice you have made for your country, but on your courage in now assuming the responsibility of your convictions...
...stabbed in the back by an anti-British terrorist in Nigeria. He helped Nigerian politicians draft their constitution, and headed Jamaica's march to stability and independence. As for his last and most frustrating assignment, he says wryly that "anyone who understood Cyprus had been misinformed." Whatever the fate of that unhappy nation, Sir Hugh looks back proudly on his career as empire liquidator. "It was a time of fulfillment," he says. "All the countries in which I served are now governing themselves...
...current princess is an enormously wealthy, unbelievably beautiful Frenchwoman; though Jewish, she is married to a monocle-twirling Prussian general who cannot see the evil of Hitler until their adored child dies in a Jewish concentration camp. They retaliate by consigning the guilty SS officer to a grisly fate. However, the novel does not keep its implicit promise to find meaning in mankind's acquiescence in evil. Worse, Condon's stylistic limitations, which hardly matter in a farce, cripple a serious novel. As an old Hollywood press agent and the possessor of a considerable comic talent, he should...