Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...office ever since 1834, when Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii created the catastrophe novel as a form of entertainment. ("Alas! Alas!" murmured Ione, "I can go no farther; my steps sink among the scorching cinders. Fly, dearest!-beloved, fly! and leave me to my fate...
...here is the slightest bit interested in Allan Bakke's personal fate. But because he sued the University of California, claiming he suffered "reverse discrimination" at the hands of the U.C. Davis admissions team, Bakke put himself in the center of an assault on the constitutionality of racial and ethnic quota systems, and on the very concept of affirmative action...
...lefty fanned Dave Arsenault on a nice curveball and proceeded to work the next three innings in the same easy fashion, waiting for some sort of reverse of fate for the Crimson offense...
...Protests are mounting on the entire planet against the U.S. court's disgraceful sentencing of Johnny Harris on a fabricated charge," declared Tass. According to the Soviet news agency, a peasant from the South Russian region of Krasnodar described Harris' fate as "tantamount to a lynching!" As for the president of Outer Mongolian State University, he concluded that the Harris case proves American justice "is not worth a rap." From the frozen taiga of Siberian Yakutia came the informed opinion of Farm Worker I. Volkov that Harris' trial was "a gross violation of the Helsinki agreement." According...
...greed seals the fate of Mother Courage, the lens of the telescope determines the destiny of Galileo. Apart from Socrates' drinking the hemlock, the most vivid martyrdom of truth in the memory of civilized Western man is Galileo's recantation before the Italian Inquisition. The difference between the two is that Socrates could have fled from Athens and refused to do so, and Galileo could have refused to recant but chose to do so. Out of Galileo's dilemma and choice, Brecht fashioned a play of high moral intelligence and lasting pertinence. Unlike some of Brecht...