Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forbidden. There is an enormous field beyond, in which snowballing is tolerated, if not actively encouraged. When I arrived at the front gate one morning, some of my little angels were snowballing some other little angels just in back of school. I went out and thumped three of them. Fate at that moment sent the eighth-grade boys out to snowball the second-graders right under our noses. This is known as being On the Spot. "Oh yeah," my children say, "you spank us little guys but you don't dare touch the big ones...
...more she pondered the fate of her native Tyrol, the more Miss Frankie Miller worried. Finally she sat down and wrote Britain's Foreign Minister a letter about it. Instead of mailing the letter, she took it to the New York Times, paid $693 to have it printed last week as an ad. Said Frankie Miller to Ernie Bevin: "Humbly I beg your Excellency to have the [liberation] of South Tyrol brought before the UNO. ... I also challenge the zone occupation of Austria...
...neither case was the effort at conformity more than superficial. The fate of the Old Bolshevik word "commissar" was just a finishing touch in Russia's new nationalism. Commented one U.S. diplomat: "Now they have everything back but the Czar...
...lesson: watch out for the jaded aristocrats of New York. Back in the 1840s, according to the evidence of Dragonwyck, one innocent Greenwich girl named Miranda (Gene Tierney) knew no better. She was helping with the chores on her father's farm when fate gave her a chance to go to Dragonwyck, the Hudson Valley home of a distant relative. Miranda trembled with joy, begged to be allowed to accept. Her parents, dubious at first, finally relented...
...Gospels confronts the reader with no such unpleasant choice of illusion or disillusion. Now Santayana accepts the illusion. If religion is a myth, he says, no disparagement is thereby implied, since science, philosophy, history and other "images" of the universal flux are also myths. "In a word, fate decrees that we shall take our ideas to be knowledge; and in this we are not misled. . . . Nothing in this knowledge bears to be pressed or scrutinized too closely; but most of it, if taken lightly and conventionally, as we take language, helps to carry us prosperously through life...