Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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German Communists are yelling for the Ruhr more loudly than any other Germans; French Communists are yelling for the Ruhr more loudly than any other Frenchmen. It pays on both sides of the boundary, and doesn't matter much to Moscow, which knows that the Ruhr's fate will be decided by the Big Three, not by France or Germany. Of course, on questions really important to Moscow, foreign Communists reverse their nationalist line. For instance, genuine French nationalists see a military advantage in France's participation in a Western bloc of nations. But French Communists bitterly...
...very few things in the world that are both great and perfect. As playwriting, Oedipus is as compact as dynamite. As drama, it tramples down its own large horrors, mounting to a world of austere terror beyond them. All the blind helplessness of man's fate is in it, and all the tragic suffering of his meeting...
...fate of the draft bill fitted a paralyzing pattern: long delay followed by frantic, last-minute improvisation. President Truman had requested draft extension last September. No bill reached the House floor until April 10. There it was emasculated. Then the May 15 deadline closed in on the Senate...
After weeks of controversy and worry, the fate of the Dana-Palmer House was settled this week with the announcement that that it will be moved across Quincy Street into the area between the Union and Faculty Club and set up as a University guest-house...
Adultery aside, Bernard constantly broods over the pitiable efforts of his fellow men to lead a Christian life in a money-crazy world. He walks the streets endlessly, dreaming and puzzling-like all Farrell heroes-over the fate of human beings in a world they never made...