Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...created man, so Shakespeare created Hamlet. He is an infinite mar vel. He is more than a part: he is an element, a realm, a cosmos. He is man in extremis, fencing desperately and gal lantly on the rim of an abyss called fate. To watch him is to be chilled and electrified by the destiny...
Last March, the Harvard Law Review noted student feeling "that the fate of a man's legal career is irrevocably determined during two weeks of June in his first year of law school." Exam grades--changed only last year to letters, replacing a numerical system carried out to decimal points--determine membership in honorary organizations which are crucial to career plans...
Harvard's fate may on its ability to contain Columbia's two superstars--6-5 All-American Jim McMillian and 6-4 Heyward Dotson. In the first game, these two combined for 50 points, McMillian hitting for 29 from the outside. Dotson rebounded strongly and executing inside cuts very well...
...Sarah await the inevitable. "You won't hear him. He just comes," warns Sarah. "I'll hear him," Varner insists. But he never does. Salvaje picks off the ranch's hired hands one by one. Varner at last realizes that the only way around fate is through it and goes out into the woods to confront his pursuer. The stalker becomes the stalked, the suspense winds as taut as a leather thong, and the violent conclusion is as inevitable as moonset and death...
...undergraduate operator named Paxton Quigley, who conducts a personal course in concupiscence. Quigley cracks feminine reserve the way a grind cracks books-with a dedication that borders on frenzy. Yet, according to a breezy little movie called 3 in the Attic, he is also a prime target for a fate worse than dearth...