Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...priest turned President, ordered mauve cassocks from Dior, quaffed champagne and built himself a luxury hotel. Meanwhile, his country's timber-based economy fell victim to dry rot. Crowds of New Class labor union members, with the aid of the army, politically defrocked him last August. A similar fate befell Dahomey's President Hubert Maga, who built himself a $3,000,000 palace and shrugged off charges of "squandermania" until his countrymen last December gave him the boot...
...heads and faces. One of the surest signs of Marfan's syndrome is a condition known as arachnodactyly-a spidery hand with long, slender fingers of exceptional dexterity. Many such people succumb to some form of heart disease early in life. One suspected Marfan type who escaped this fate was Abraham Lincoln, who had the hands of a skinny giant...
...frontiersmen either looked forward with pleasure to the extinction of the Indians or at least were indifferent to it," writes Gossett. "The intellectuals were most often equally convinced that the Indians, because of their inherent nature, must ultimately disappear. They were frequently willing to sigh philosophically over the fate of the Indians, but this was an empty gesture...
...Peace Corps looks for individualism, but not for too much. People who will balk at the restrictions of a foreign culture or at the supervision to which Peace Corps workers are subjected in the field are usually weeded out. The same fate usually befalls applicants who would get restless before their two years were...
Agony of Laughter. Wallant wrote of suffering; he believed with no sense of dismay that it was man's fate. His first novel, The Human Season, is nothing more than an extended portrayal of the enormous grief of a middle-aged Jewish plumber whose wife has died. The author does not founder in the plumber's sorrow; neither does he regard it with detachment. His view might be that of a loving son or brother who says only, because there is nothing more to say, "This is part of what...