Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hannah's forte is spinning tall tales around short people. His characters seem to have been stunted and stunned by life; they are accidents wandering around, trying to find out why they happened. Fate denies them selfdiscovery, sometimes in ludicrous ways. A Mississippi-born tennis pro falls into a river and comes close enough to drowning to survive only as a vegetable. The Oedipal tangle that led to his accident will never be his to grasp...
Indeed, it may be too early to start worrying about this odd pastime. SAGA, after all, has yet to gain broad public acceptance along the lines of that accorded the think-tankers of the early '60s. President Bok, for instance--perhaps remembering the fate of Bundy and the rest of the "best and the brightest"--said last week he had never been invited to a SAGA brain-storming session, and knows of no one else at Harvard who might have gotten the call. Several other Ivy League presidents have issued similar denials--making it clear that SAGA, for the time...
...make repeated trips up Capitol Hill to defend their budget proposals. The continuing debate about the Navy is sure to become increasingly open, perhaps even reminiscent of the revolt of the admirals. Ultimately, therefore, it may be the public that will determine the Navy's role and the fate of the surface fleet...
...days, Nixon recalls, "I said that this was just like a Greek tragedy: you could not end it in the middle of the second act or the crowd would throw chairs at the stage. In other words, the tragedy had to be seen through until the end as fate would have...
...time passes, Caligula realizes that historical forces--not emperors--change mankind and that he too cannot escape fate, determinism, predestination. Caligula rebels against the Gods of fate. He tries, through murder and the systematic perversion of all values, to prove the liberty of his own will, challenging friendship and love, common human solidarity, good and evil. But one cannot destroy all without destroying oneself. Caligula is the story of a spectacular suicide...