Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must rest in an enduring American fascination with the country's last honest crusade and that monomaniacal figure against whom the crusade was waged. As Hitler himself realized, the contest was a stark, Wagnerian drama, and even Toland's dullest pages cannot obscure the sense of inexorable fate that pervades the script. Time after time, Hitler avoids the assassin's bomb, as if some outraged providence refused him anything less than complete and final destruction. Americans were the good guys then, and they obviously like to be reminded of the fact by writers like Toland. Mayo Mohs
Goodness, what a serious matter. Unless college can deliver a better pay-out, liberal education is bound to suffer the fate of other respectable but low-return activities like religion, love and honesty. Parents will stop investing in their children's education and shift to soybean futures. Students will abandon college classrooms for brokerage offices. Professors of economics will have to go to work...
Metaphorically, that appears to be the fate of the Harvard cross-country team's opposition this past season. Four teams--Princeton, Penn, Dartmouth and Northeastern--outran the Crimson in meets earlier this year, but the Harriers caught up with all four in last Monday's IC4As and qualified Harvard for a slot in Monday's NCAA finals in Denton, Texas...
...election hinges on the fate of the votes of 130 "alleged economic strikers," Solomon says. Johnson is confident that if justice prevails the votes will count and the UFW will win. The board has interviewed each of the 130 and will decide sometime in the future if they are Gallo employees on strike for economic reasons...
Little Sam seals his fate by handing his Sky-Pilot ring to Tyler as a gift. Like the guy in World War II movies who shows wallet photos of his wife to a buddy, he's finished as soon as he gives them something to remember him by. Crawling out of bed while Tyler's involved with Missy, he goes in search of the silvery fish and drowns...