Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That Summer-That Fall, by Frank D. Gilroy. Fate is a fury, and it cannot be dramatically served at room temperature. Like meteors, the heroes and heroines of tragedy consume themselves in flaming arcs of passion as they streak across the night sky of destiny. Playwright Gilroy (The Subject Was Roses) has had the dubious inspiration to modernize the Phaedra plot of Euripides and Racine and play it cool. His drama is as incendiary as a wet match head...
Natural Resources. "If just once," observed Florida Democrat Sam Gibbons afterward, "Adam had come in and said, I made a mistake,' things might have turned out differently." But throughout, Powell was being-Powell. While the House wrangled over his fate, he spent the afternoon playing dominoes in Bimini's End of the World bar, sipping "cowbells" (milk laced with Scotch) supplied by reporters. "If I'm excluded," he said philosophically, "I'll be happy all the time. If I'm not excluded, I'll be happy all the time...
...outstripped its daily newspapers, which remained local, parochial and, for the most part, ineffably stodgy; the few magazines of comment were not widely circulated. "I do not know any problem in journalism," Luce said later, "which can be usefully isolated from the profoundest questions of man's fate." Yet, he allowed mischievously: "I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in TIME should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual...
...weak and faltering America that had lost its way and failed the world in leadership. We have come to the end of as pusillanimous an epoch as there ever was in the history of a great people. There was no dignity in these years, and nothing of fate that we did not bring upon ourselves. It is also the day of hope. [For] we know, that however we have misused it, we are the principal trustees in this century of a great heritage of human freedom under God. Now at last the issue is joined: either our ideals as free...
Selling Off. Merritt-Chapman's fate was to be taken over in 1951 by Louis E. Wolfson, now 55, perhaps the U.S.'s most renowned corporation raider. Since he became the principal shareholder Wolfson has been stung with a dozen suits by angry investors, last fall was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of fraudulent dealings in Merritt-Chapman stock, which could cost him 14 years in jail...