Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radicals-apparently with the blessing of the ailing Helmsman -blocked his way. A few months after Chou's death he was dismissed from his jobs and vilified in the press. When Hua accused him of the crime of counterrevolution, he may only barely have escaped the fate promised him by wall posters that appeared in Shanghai last April saying: HANG THE CULPRIT TENG...
...fate was decided before I came to this globe," says Soviet Violinist Gidon Kremer. So it seems. His mother and father were both professional violinists. Gidon's maternal grandfather handed down his fiddle when the boy was still in his teens; it just happened to be an 18th century Guadagnini. At the Moscow State Conservatory, Kremer caught the eye and ear of the late David Oistrakh and worked with him for eight years. In 1970 at the age of 23, Kremer won Moscow's esteemed Tchaikovsky Competition. Last week he arrived in the U.S. for the first time...
...that I am in the slightest degree impressed," announced the English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, "by your bigness or your material resources, as such. Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. The great issue, about which hangs a true sublimity, and the terror of overhanging fate, is what are you going to do with all these things...
Last month the deaf-mute was back in a Cook County courtroom, sitting impassively (occasionally wrinkling his nose at policemen he had seen before) as Circuit Judge Joseph Schneider ruled on his fate. On the basis of medical testimony from doctors and therapists who had observed Lang over a seven-month period, Schneider found that while the accused murderer has "manifested dangerous behavior," he has at least an average intelligence and is not insane. Another promising finding: for the first time since he was arrested in 1965, Lang has seemed ready to learn sign language, quickly picking up 100 basic...
...birth of working class organization in a small suburb of Turin around the turn of the century. Presenting an intensely vivid but unsentimental portrait of oppression, the film conveys a unique sense of what it's like for people trapped in social processes who begin to take their fate into their own hands. The director raises all of the right questions about working class militancy--the problems of racism, sexism, and sectional divisions within the working class; the limits of union activity; the position of intellectuals in the labor movement--without suggesting there are easy answers. Marcello Mastroianni presents...