Word: fates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...month, the poem, 4,000 lines long, begins and ends with small Isolt of Brittany, whose hands are made to seem more fabulously white than ever set off against the shadowed course of events at a frowning castle across the channel in Cornwall. There Tristram, "orgulous and full of fate," is discovered lamenting the irony of the wedding he has blindly arranged for his gaunt-armed Uncle Mark, a "man-shaped goat" with a salacious eye. Having awakened late to its meaning for him, Tristram has a name upon his lips that becomes a cry, a despairing exultation: "Isolt, Isolt...
...precursors, men who have tried before to connect history with the reality of life, and not merely with its flags and trappings, who have realized, to quote the Beards themselves, that "the heritage, politics, economics, culture and international filiations of any civilization are so closely woven by fate into one fabric that no human eye can discern the beginning of its warp or woof." For in these two volumes, on a scale never before attempted by any American scholar, the Beards have tried to gather and to express the formative influences, the circumstances and the results of all that...
...history arouses little more interest than the leading murder trial of the movement. In the days when news was exaggerated around all the campfires in the wilderness, the whole-hearted sympathy of the people would have turned towards the Mississippi valley; but now the city of New Orleans, its fate still hanging in the balance, causes less excitement than the struggle, several years ago, to save the life of one man trapped in a Kentucky cave...
...more than the annual tide which has always swept in from the uncharted seas of adolescence, bringing disaster in its wake. Nevertheless, objects the writer--and this is at once his most salient and vulnerable point this tide is too enormous, too appalling, to be accepted as fate. Some place between matriculation and the commencement platform there is an evil--one which has no place in the lives of what in all correctness may be presumed to be the hope of the nation...
...harassed heroines of a decade ago. At a roadhouse, the hero, law-student, jigs with women too old to trade in their own personality. But he loves the cigaret girl. The villain lures her to a boathouse, where, once in his fell clutches, who can say what fearsome fate is in store? Just when the audience might, if it cared, drop out of its seats because of the horrible suspense, the hero romps along with his right uppercut in good working order...