Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whatever their eventual fate, the decision of these patients in agreeing to the operation, knowing full well its great risks and only moderate hope of benefit, has helped surgery to make a momentous advance...
...patient land, the kind of chaos and confusion, disillusion and dismay gripping Italy would long since have provoked the army to take over. But appearances are deceiving in Italy, a country with its own peculiar laws of logic. As Luigi Barzini wrote in The Italians: "They rage against their fate today as they have always done. They have been on the verge of revolution for the last hundred and sixty odd years . . . The unsolved problems pile up and inevitably produce catastrophes at regular intervals. The Italians always see the next one approaching with a clear eye, but like sleepers...
...fate of Panaghoulis was known to have bitterly divided the ruling junta into hawks and doves. Possibly as a result, there was a government shake-up involving four of the original junta officers. Hard-lining former Colonel Ioannis Ladas was switched from the Public Order Ministry to the Interior Ministry, in the process losing direct control of the nation's police. He refused his new post. Ladas, and two other junta members, were balking at their reassignments. Premier Papadopoulos, intent on avoiding further damage to his government's reputation abroad, seemed to have sided with the doves...
...form those revolutionary forces that would eventually drive his countrymen out of Indo-China and make Mao Tse-tung master of China. The Malraux of the middle period had much to recommend him too. As an almost mythical liberal of the 1930s and a famous novelist (Man's Fate, Man's Hope), he helped organize and then commanded the brave, ramshackle Republican air force that flew against Franco's armies in the Spanish Civil War. Finally, if the author felt inclined to autumnal apologia, he could start by revealing himself in his current incarnation as De Gaulle...
...remarkable cultural confection, especially for readers armed with some prior knowledge of Malraux and France, not to mention a tolerance for offhand allusions to everything from Vishnu to Vichy water. Its most accessible elements are brief recollections of personal danger, each spiced with the author's sense of fate and history. Such incidents were chosen because they brought Malraux, the man of action, face to face with death-and the limitations of human courage-just as his lifetime has brought him face to face with the limitations of the revolutionary aims that he pursued so hotly in youth...