Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is something tragic in the fate of a lifetime's dreams hanging so heavily on the simplest of margins. For the thousands of candidates who sweated blood for months, and years, and especially for the men who sought the presidency in this election year, the mysterious, often incomprehensible process on election day has passed final judgment. Despite the talk of packaged candidates, enormous egos and the surreal stellar auroras that surround modern candidates and campaigns, it is the ultimate importance of that single day balanced against vast amounts of time, money and effort that condemns the Fords and Carters...
Unfortunately, Seaver is given to almost tearful assertions of the author's worth. During their collaboration, in a moment of Beckett's despair for the fate of his efforts, Seaver blurts, "But Mr. Beckett. You're crazy! Don't you realize who you are? Why...you're a thousand times more important than...Albert Camus, for example!" We can chalk this up to youthful enthusiasm, but upon mature consideration Seaver begins his quasihagiographical introduction: "Samuel Beckett is, in my opinion, one of the two or three most important writers of the twentieth century." Isn't there enough of this...
Voters yesterday approved three other referendum questions, while the fate of the "bottle bill" remained unclear early this morning. (See separate story on all the questions...
Harvard's classic last gasp came with 1:21 left, when Winn took a short pass from Kubacki and raced across the field for a 70-yard score. Too little, too late, too bad. Brown ran out the clock in its own territory, and the fate was sealed. Harvard will now chase after a share of the Ivy title as Brown moves headlong into a two-game finale that could very well bring the first football championship ever into Providence's waiting hands...
...endurance of that image is probably the result of Ford's unusual ascent to the White House. Fate having granted Ford a reprieve from the strenuous tests of a national campaign, the nation's expectations of the new President were formed primarily by the nature of his predecessor. After the disillusionment produced by the corruption and arrogance of Richard Nixon's administration, Genghis Khan would have been welcomed with open arms. If Ford seemd incapable of inspired vision and strong leadership, he also seemed in-capable of inspired villainy or ingenious deceit. It would be enough, it seemed...