Word: fates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once again Wilhelm II quaffed the mead of a triumph presented to his lips by Fate or Chance. It is scarcely realized today through what extraordinary vicissitudes he has passed. "The Supreme War Criminal" (1918)-Mr. Lloyd George haying actually won an election with the slogan "Hang the Kaiser!" : "Wilhelm of Doom" (1926)-Herr Hohenzollern having already received from the Reich a sum equivalent to $1,000 for every day since his abdication...
...bear my personal fate with resignation ... I do not care what my foes say about me. I do not recognize them as my judges. . . . He (God) knows why He subjects me to this test. I shall bear everything with patience and await whatsoever God still holds in store...
...ridiculous squabble in Manhattan over the morals of the drama is currently reaching a crisis. The fate of the Citizens Play Jury is in the hands of the law. If this body is declared illegal and inoperative, censorship reverts to the old section 1140 of the penal code which makes it a crime to present an obscene, indecent, immoral and impure theatrical production. The flaw in this statute is the fallibility of human opinion. How is the Grand Jury qualified to decide between indecency and art? Does Eugene O'Neill deserve the same latitude as Shakespeare? Obviously...
...will have to pass through numerous academic abridgments and crystallizations before it can touch the consciousness of the mass of Western mankind, of whose ideational processes it tells. In its own words, "The attempt is made for the first time to determine history in advance, to follow up the fate of the civilization of Western Europe in the stages through which it has yet to pass. . . . Its narrower theme is an analysis of the decline of the culture of the West; but the goal is nothing less than the problem of civilization." Four cycles of civilization are traced-the Indian...
...course a far cry to the days when philosophers sat at Paris and decreed the fate of the medieval church and of its imperial counterpart. The university has changed with the philosopher; neither one is today what it was yesterday, and both have windmills which engage their Quixotic thrusts as completely as did the medieval world swing in its material and its spiritual axis about the university philosopher. But that such a change as has come about is permanent and not just the pendulum swing of reaction is a deduction hazardous and frail under the touch of reasoning...