Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experience. For Luce would often come to a dead stop in his torrent of words, while he thought out the next phase of his argument, and into such 30-second silences many a tyro editor or visitor blundered, thinking it was his turn to talk at last. The fate of such rushers-in was painful to behold: they could be as far as two or three sentences into their rebuttals when Harry would find in his mind what he had been looking for, and pick up exactly where he had left off-talking through their lines as though they...
...important research on the ground that it violated the treaty, and filch patents. The treaty, said Franz Josef Strauss, leader of the Bavarian branch of the Christian Democrats, "is a new Yalta of cosmic proportions,"-harking back to the wartime conference in which the Americans and Russians decided the fate of postwar Europe...
Over and over, Funt returned to his biggest beef. "I don't mind being finished," he said. "I've got lots to do. I feel that the 45 people who sweat this show out deserve a better fate than to hear it at tenth hand, without the dignity of a very nice funeral...
...time is approaching when the instrumentalists of Powell's Music fall silent, and what is called for is a long, critical view of Powell on his podium. That "character is fate" is a cliché; the fate of Powell's characters is, like a capricious bomb, historical chance. There is really no sense in any of his creatures except their determination to make their folly explicit in their own words and actions. They live to die. Yet for many years to come, they will also live in the compelling echo of Powell's funereal dance...
...conflict has been so thoroughly reported as the Viet Nam war; not only the battles but the life and fate of the villages have been described many times. Author Sheehan adds nothing new, but her pen portraits are affecting and authentic...