Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...written more than 200 scores. Leonard Bernstein's On the Waterfront and Alex North's Streetcar Named Desire were part of the same revolt. The Third Man's zither score had an insistent, mechanical inevitability that suggested a man out of control of his fate. Viva Zapata! rang with the violent sound of revolution, and Breakfast at Tiffany's, for which Henry Mancini wrote one of the best film scores ever, was lighted with a sweet ambiance that had the very taste of caviar...
...Milk Train, Tennessee Williams is concerned with ultimate things-the meaning of life, death and God-and the play has the bedrock interest that man's fate always holds for man. These fundamental questions demand answers, and Williams has only been able to give them echoes...
Crises for Cats. In most other civilized countries, the liver is rated one of the body's most rugged and efficient organs; the original protein factory, it can actually repair its own damaged cells and lost tissue. The Anglo-Saxon often attributes liver ailments to malnutrition, a fate to which the liver is not conspicuously subject in France, where every foodstuff is weighed for its effect on the foie. In the age-old belief that eggs overtax young livers, the average French parent would sooner poach a hare than an egg for the children. Chocolate, butter and cream...
...Whitehead: "In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute: the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. Today we maintain ourselves. Tomorrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated...
...Fair Lady style and set in London, where a royal delegation has arrived from the mythical kingdom of Carpathia for the coronation of George V. José Ferrer is a middle-aging, sleep-around prince, though he acts more like a wooden horse. His fancy, his fury, and his fate is to seduce a visiting American showgirl (Florence Henderson), a sunny birdbrain incubated in Wisconsin. Between Ferrer's dead-pained expression and Henderson's unvaryingly cheery smile, the pair manage to drive away all thoughts of sex and romance...