Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Solzhenitsyn's account of the fate of prisoners' wives is the most sorrowing part of The First Circle. His cool realism is suffused with a rush of personal grief as he describes Gleb Ner-zhin's Nadya: waiting outside prisons for a glimpse of her husband, allowed rare letters and rarer visits, herself persecuted whenever her relationship to a prisoner is discovered?and, finally, driven to divorce in self-defense. (Solzhenitsyn's own wife, Natalya, divorced him at his urging while he was in prison. She remarried and bore two children, but after his release she divorced her second husband...
...cowardly fashion abandoned to their misfortune those whom persecution finally condemned to exile, to the concentration camp, to death. After the 20th Party Congress (1956) we learned that there were more than 600 writers who were guilty of no crime and whom the union obediently left to their fate in the prisons and the camps. But the list is still longer. Our eyes have not seen, and never will see, the end of the list. It contains the names of young writers and poets of whom we learned only by chance, thanks to personal meetings, men whose talent withered...
...ends, intentionally or otherwise, he has encouraged these young people in the highly emotional involvement in public affairs that led them into irrational conduct and the consequent disaster. For months we have seen screaming mobs of innocent children whipped into frenzy by the "dream" that the fate of the country depends upon the election of a particular candidate. No one man can save America, regardless of how capable he is. Neither Humphrey nor Nixon can do it alone. The Senate, the House, the courts and every .citizen have an obligation to help. We need these young people...
...more than two hours. During that time, a Soviet officer stole Dubček's wristwatch. Later in the day, the Soviets clamped Dubček and the others into handcuffs and took each of them to separate places of internment. Abused, ill-fed, not knowing what fate awaited them, they were kept in total isolation for three days...
Searching out the Patriot's fate, Dr. Pool over the years turned up no fewer than seven deathbed confessions by pirates, all of whom described boarding such a ship, looting it and forcing crew and passengers to walk the plank. One pirate told of a lady passenger who asked for a reprieve while she changed into a white dress, then calmly walked to her death. Were the lady in white and Theodosia the same as the lady in the portrait? The present owner, Wilmarth Lewis, Yale '18 and a Horace Walpole scholar, believes that they were. He points...