Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...criminals. Though they gave no dates, Hanoi's ambassadors in Prague and Peking both announced that the trials will be held. Toward this end, Hanoi radio reported the establishment of "a committee to investigate war crimes of U.S. imperialists in Viet Nam." As for the ultimate fate of the airmen, Ho Chi Minh sent a message to Socialist Norman Thomas last week promising "humanitarian" treatment, raising the possibility that the pilots' lives would be spared in a propaganda show...
...these playwrights are obliquely related to the greatest theatrical influence of the 20th century, though perhaps not its greatest playwright-Bertolt Brecht. Despite his seemingly stubborn Marxism, Brecht is intimately concerned with the existence problem. His plays are drenched in fatality, and to call fate "economic necessity" is to change the name without changing the game. While they do not all belong to the theater of the absurd, these playwrights possess that initial recognition of absurdity that, Camus argues, comes to one in the midst of deadening routines. In the opening scene of John Osborne's Look Back...
...might be thought that this heightened consciousness of man's fate would spur some new heroic attitude, and in a minimal way it has. For "Credo quia absurdum [I believe because it is absurd]" these playwrights substitute: I will endure, knowing it is absurd. This is a far cry from the vaulting heroes of past tragedy. The tragic hero must bear full responsibility for his acts, and that is what makes him a thing of the past. Modern intellectual man sees himself as the plaything of powers beyond his reach and shrugs along with Hamlet: "The time...
...spans a generation. He authored the 1940 Smith Act, under which Communist Party leaders were prosecuted and convicted, and other important legislation. His apogee was between 1955 and 1961 when, as chairman, he had absolute control over the Rules Committee, and the committee often had decisive influence over the fate of bills. Smith repeatedly used that strength with great skill to block, dilute or delay social welfare legislation and civil rights bills. Though he kept the chairmanship his authority crumbled when John Kennedy and House Speaker Sam Rayburn succeeded in adding anti-Smith members to the committee. Smith also lost...
...winner? By a grisly quirk of fate, it was the late Rex Manchester, on the basis of points scored in the first two heats...