Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summer months follows every pitch and grabs for every grain of hope with the tacit, suppressed knowledge in the back of his mind that around August, no matter how many home runs Jim Rice hits, or how awesome Yaz is out there in left--the cold hand of fate will sweep down from New York or Baltimore or Detroit and topple all the dominos...
Starting next week, L. Fred Jewett will be a man with an even bigger problem. A phone in his office will tinkle and it will be joined by buzzing throughout Byerly Hall. Nervous students who cannot wait another moment will inquire about their fate. Angered parents of rejected applicants will deluge the office with tears, protests and hysteria. But the entreaties are in vain, for the admissions game for this year is over, and L. Fred Jewett will already be considering the transfer applicants...
...Minister Begin of maintaining the old divisions between their two countries that he had tried to overcome when he made his journey to Jerusalem. Asked if he had any regrets about making his peace initiative, Sadat said, "Never," and added, "There is no going back. I have chosen my fate...
...peoplehood (am) of the Jews is a congenital condition I accept, along with a share in their fate. At the same time, I refuse to be burdened by such supernatural anachronisms as God, the Covenant. Divine Revelation, the Chosen People, the Messiah (what a mischievous and tragic notion!), etc.-although I know and respect the ethical content of the Jewish view of these ideas. It is enough that I am and my people are. To the orthodox, metadox and paradox Jews, the polydox are a welcome new strain...
This private truth has made Greenfeld more sensitive to our common human feelings than most American men would choose to be. In spite of this his diary is never sentimental, self-pitying or gratuitously bitter. His anger at medical and educational bureaucracies, even at a fate that has dealt him what he calls "the joker in the bourgeois deck," is always tempered by stoic irony. "Instead of being a driven writer," he notes, "I have become a driving writer." Entry for Sept. 22, 1976, two days after Greenfeld's play I Have a Dream opened to rave reviews...