Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Houdini's success was based on more than defiance of the establishment; he seemd to defy fate itself. In 1916, for instance, Houdini narrowly escaped from a box buried six ft. underground. (Once free, he had to dig his way to the surface.) Another of his death-defying tricks was the Chinese Water Torture Cell: padlocked by the ankles in a glass-fronted water tank, Houdini hung upside down, but would make his escape within harrowing minutes. (He did not die doing this stunt, despite the efforts of Hollywood producers to make people think...
...think that young men who opposed the war in Vietnam would escape to Canada. Yet as some of us read and thought about the hundreds who did just that, we say that they were right, that they were heroes for running. The lesson was brought home by the fate of the thousands who, either out of ignorance or sense of patriotism, did go to fight in Southeast Asia. The ones who wrote home, as does one character in this fine novel: I seen some pretty awful things. I done some pretty awful things. I really can't talk about...
...stop westward trip into a campaign to inspire grass roots support for his program. In Michigan, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado and California, Carter seized every chance he could find to hammer home the point that nothing less than the economic and military security of the nation rested on the fate of his energy legislation. He also placed his own prestige on the line, declaring at one point: "I have equated the energy policy legislation with either success or failure of my first year in office as a leader of our country in domestic affairs." Despite specific dissatisfactions and some demonstrations...
...lives have a purpose. Cruelty, Levanter muses, is magnified when those in authority "forget that their power is nothing more than a temporary camouflage of mortality." When a wealthy widow asks Levanter to marry her, he becomes frightened at the suggestion that the two of them can construct a fate for themselves: "A superstition lingered in him that if they did so chance might turn from a benefactor to the ultimate terrorist, punishing both of them for trying to control their own lives, trying to create a life plot...
...self-assumed brother's keeper role, planting a well-aimed globule of spit on Davis's face, and he joins the blacks and Hispanics in systematically tormenting Davis. Dubbed "Short Eyes" for his crime, Davis swiftly sinks to the status of an outcast among society's outcasts; his fate now effectively sealed, you only await the execution of the witchhunt ritual against...