Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...receive their reward from God in an eternity of happiness in heaven tended to destroy man's will to power, and exalted the meek and humble losers of life instead of world-conquering supermen. Albert Camus searched Christian theology in vain for the fulfillment of man's fate, found more satisfactory standards in his own tragic ponderings on human responsibility and solidarity...
...even if the liberals succeed in blocking Young, two other important questions raised by this incident remain to be answered. The first is the fate of McCormack. It is not only people in the House who would like to see him replaced as Speaker. His leadership has been consistently mediocre, to put it mildly, and is a chief reason why the Administration's legislative program continues to have so much trouble in the House...
This legislative bundle is sure to bring on a Southern filibuster in the Senate. Once filibuster begins, the fate of the Administration bills will be up to Senate Republicans. To shut off the filibuster, Democratic leadership in the Senate must try to invoke cloture, which requires a two-thirds majority, or 67 votes. Since only 40-odd Democrats can be expected to vote for cloture, the Administration will need 20-odd Republican votes. To rally those Republican votes, President Kennedy last week talked long and earnestly to G.O.P. congressional leaders. He also called in former President Dwight Eisenhower...
...just received my copy of TIME Magazine [June 7], and I couldn't believe my eyes. Is it just a quirk of fate or coincidence that Vol. 81 No. 23 has on its cover Pope John the 23rd, who died...
...Tocsin's leaders face a nearly impossible job in toughening its intellectual fibre. For underlying the decision of many people to join the organization is anger not at vapidity and ineptitude in Washington, but at the fact that the government has the power to decide the fate of the human race. The peace movement really challenge institutions rather than policies. A past officer of the group has suggested that its goal is to "return" control of foreign policy to the people--although he was not clear as to when in the past such a system had existed. Hence the movement...