Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problematical to be anything more than the subject of wishful thinking. There is no question about who would wear the red, white, and so-forth if the committee which does such things made its choice now. As it stands now--as it has stood ever since 1936, the fate of the Crimson oarsmen lies under the battered, gray felt hat worn perennially by Coach Bolles...
...sister, the wife of a blacksmith. There are two completely separate plots, which Dickens, with characteristic wantonness, connects at the end by means of pure coincidence. Condemned as lack of skill, this deus ex machina shows only that the author was more interested in character, scene, and the fate of his hero than he was in the mechanics of plot...
...rise in the beat. It went up to 34, to 36. For the last 20 strokes, Navy hit a brisk 42 beat. They were less than half a boat length ahead at the finish when Coxswain Gartland gave "Easy all" to his crew and got set for the traditional fate of all victorious coxswains: a ducking by his mates...
...Struggle with the Angel. Malraux had been one of revolution's fighting angels, whose sanguinary sagas related Communism's sweaty glories in China, in Germany, in Spain (Days of Wrath, Man's Fate, Man's Hope...
...Composer Richard Wagner, the contradictory elements became part of an even greater tragedy. Wagner, says Mann, was a "voluptuary" whose battle against his own lavish, romantic sensuality was a lost cause from the start, and whose passionate fairy tales suffered the horrible fate of being engorged in a "beetle-browed about-face toward dictatorship and terror." Yet Wagner, too, Mann insists, was an idealist of "the epoch of bourgeois culture," a "man of the people who all his life long . . . repudiated power and money, violence and war." Nazi use of Wagner's "folk and sword and Nordic heroics," says...