Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since its first performance at Dublin in 1742, Handel's "Messiah," although recognized as one of the greatest pieces of church music, has, only through its association with Christmas, survived the fate of his other works so long relegated to the limbo of forgotten music. Only Bach has escaped the dense fog of obscurity that surrounds almost every composer before Haydn. It is lamentable enough that such acknowledged masters as Palestrina, Scarlatti, Corelli, Vivaldi, Purcell, and Boccherini should be worshipped from afar but rarely heard in American concert halls...
...back Britain against Russia, the Shah, Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, with the fatalism of his race, might well ponder the philosophy of inevitability. Without much help from the Shah, Iran's fate would probably be decided at Mos cow's Big Three meeting. Nor was it likely that sweet reason would play much part in the settlements...
...Nothing the peoples of Europehave produced is worth the first known poem that appeared among them. Perhaps they will yet rediscover the epic genius, when they learn that there is no refuge from fate, learn not to admire force, not to hate the enemy, nor to scorn the unfortunate. How soon this will happen is another question...
Behind these best-sellers trailed other novels of unquestionable sales-merit. In a world of uneasy consciences, the problems of man's fate and faith were almost as marketable as adultery. Notable were Bruce Marshall's The World, the Flesh and Father Smith (in which the wise innocence of a Catholic priest prevails against the world-his parish-and the flesh-the problems of his parishioners); James Hilton's So Well Remembered, a simple Englishman's struggle between good (his principles) and evil (his wife); James Ramsey Ullman's The White Tower, in which...
...fate of the NROTC members themselves will remain in doubt until further announcements from the Navy, with the College authorities at present awaiting word from the Bureau of Naval Personnel as to details of the peacetime NROTC program. Men in the present program who are candidates for the degree in Harvard College and who are released by the Navy will be provided with rooms, Dean Hanford promised last night...