Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Family. The audience recovered from its surprise quickly enough to admire the fair play of the Academy's 1,450 voting members. For some, another surprise was the fate of 20th Century-Fox's major contender, The Snake Pit, which won only one award, for its sound recording...
Reluctant to share the fate of Charles Dickens ("so much is known about him that might have happened to Wickens, or Pickens, or Stickens that his biographers have obliterated him"), Shaw devotes most of Self Sketches to correcting "what had been overlooked or misunderstood."* Sample restatements: ¶ "I have not yet ascertained the truth about myself. For instance, how far am I mad, and how far sane? I do not know." ¶ "Aunt Ellen, though humpbacked, was not a midget...
...creation. In 1927 Stalin had postulated the inevitability of two hostile worlds. "In the course of further development of international revolution," he said, "two centers will form on a world scale . . . The struggle between these two centers for the possession of the world economy will decide the fate of capitalism and Communism in the whole world...
...stoic admiral added: "There is nothing unusual about such a compromise with fate. We make these decisions each time we ride in a taxicab or go skating or skiing...
Actually, the orchestra's fate was in a mortal lap. Next season, the orchestra's 38-year-old First Cellist Howard Mitchell will be wielding the baton instead of the bow. Handsome Howard Mitchell might need some Olympian help at that, however, since there were indications that it might not be forthcoming from some of the usual backers of the orchestra. One ardent Kindler supporter, who chipped in $41,000 for the orchestra last year, had pointedly limited himself to $10 in his first contribution this year...