Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Andre Malraux, 52, onetime Marxist novelist (Man's Hope, Man's Fate), now No. 1 political theorist and propagandist for Charles de Gaulle; and Madeleine Jeanne Lioux Malraux, thirtyish, pretty widow of his halfbrother, Roland, a Resistance hero who died in a Nazi concentration camp; each for the second time; in Riquewihr, Alsace...
...rich Londoners buy up and "develop" the mad lord's crazy, romantic acres, poachers and gypsies foresee the doom of carefree living, and the black shadow of standardized modern life falls across Brensham's thatched roofs. But such events are like wars and earthquakes -huge blows of fate under which a man must either collapse or grin and buckle his belt. And the men of Brensham always choose to grin, because what saves them-and makes them more fabulous than life-size-is that they never condescend to be mean and sniveling mortals...
...select a new section man for English Ab, he has no way of choosing the material to be covered. Each section concentrates on a specific phase of literature, but the range is extreme and the sections many; and the student has no way of knowing in advance whether his fate in Shakespeare or Euripides. Whatever his fancy may be, he must take what he gets...
Original Sin. This grand but somewhat anxious survey of man's fate Dr. Niebuhr clinches with a doctrine of original sin in which he leans heavily upon an insight of Kierkegaard's: "Sin presupposes sin." That is, sin need not inevitably arise from man's anxiety if sin were not already in the world. Niebuhr finds the agent of this prehistoric sin in the Devil, a fallen angel who "fell because [like man] he sought to lift himself above his measure, and who in turn insinuates temptation into human life." Thus, "the sin of each individual...
...Spartan doggedness, he kept his letters on the impersonal plane of discussions of books, occasionally formulating a statement that now seems a remarkable presentiment of the basic theme of his subsequent work: "Solitude . . . tends to magnify one's ideas of individuality; it sharpens his sympathy for failure where fate has been abused ... it renders a man suspicious of the whole natural plan...