Word: fatefulness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...under his vest and went down town for the final existential test of wits with the Secret Service. If Mailer was successful, he will have altered the trajectory of history. The nation could be different, somehow, better, more alive, more in touch with its essence, free to choose its fate-if he punched Eric Sevareid in the nose...
...both Hitler and Eva were caused by cyanide. A meticulous comparison of Hitler's dental records and the teeth found on the corpse convinced the Soviets that they had found the body of the Führer. Eva was similarly identified. Stalin showed "considerable interest in the fate of Hitler," Bezymenski observes with seemingly unconscious irony. Yet the Soviets kept their findings secret. The Kremlin wanted to hold the autopsy reports back, the author claims, "in case someone might try to slip into the role of 'the Führer saved by a miracle,' " and to continue...
...perjured testimony of their neighbors, are proven guilty by the camera. A newsreel filmed during the height of the mob violence containing the indelible record of their faces is presented in court. The scene is cathartic, as Lang presents the camera per se as an instrument of fate, the omniscient agent of grim truths. It is even more cathartic in its simplicity, for the concept of film-as-evidence recalls the very motives for the genesis of the medium, that of stopping time--freezing and thereby capturing an ever-undeniable reality...
...Burgess's male characters, with the exception of the cynical betrayer, Rawcliffe, whose death is the most effective episide in the book, are as static and object-like as his women. The characters are exhibits of no more than equal rank with the strange locales and cunning twists of fate Burgess marshals for the reader's diversion...
...giving attention to both TV and texts. The only interruptions we suffer are during the commercials, when we automatically drop the books and "tune in." It's the simplest thing in the world to study while the forces of good and evil meet in climactic clash deciding the fate of civilization, but it's a sheer impossibility to maintain even an iota of concentration when a beautiful girl huskily tells you to "take...