Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think that it's too difficult to augur Harvard's fate tomorrow. Outcome-wise, things just cannot get any worse for the Crimson, which has been strangely stripped of victories against Princeton and Brown over the past two weeks...
...part of his machine-building, is banking his political future on it, in part because he realizes that its failure will mean angry homeowners storming City Hall to protest skyrocketing property taxes. And yet, by planting confusion in the voter's minds, the business community has kept the fate of Question One in doubt. From an advertising perspective, it is far easier for opponents of the amendment to say it does no good, than for proponents to convince voters that 100 per cent valuation is a serious danger...
...insurance policy. As it happens, he has met a poor carnival worker who seems to him to be his exact double, though in fact - and Nabokov's smile can be discerned here - there is no resemblance between the two men. Undeterred by reality and convinced that fate has handed him a chance at the perfect crime, Hermann changes clothes with the fellow, then shoots him, intending to collect on the in surance policy through his wife and live blissfully ever after...
...world. Louisa learns to cook at a grand London house and attracts the attention of the Prince of Wales. Naturally, she must marry someone else immediately. "The prince would never seek to compromise a single lady," explains the royal equerry. Louisa rails at this "conspeyeracy" but bows to sovereign fate and marries Mr. Trotter, the butler (played by Donald Burton with just the right hint of smarminess). The prince sets them up in a London house designed for discreet visits. In quick succession, Victoria dies, the new King finds that he must bow to propriety and stop going out nights...
Riesman says students play a greater role than they realize in determining the fate of their curriculums. "Students vote with their feet and with their attention," he explains. Because professors dislike teaching semi-captive audiences trying merely to fulfill requirements, they try to design courses that attract eager and interested students...