Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your June 6 issue you describe the strange fate of the Schloss collection, which was seized by the Nazis and which in part is now being sold at auction in Paris...
...newsmen he said: "I do not see the world as darkly as many. People should not believe the politicians. I am optimistic about the fate of Europe, and America can help to save what it is possible to preserve of European civilization, principally by spiritual...
French Surgeon Jacques May believes that this story-which "could continue indefinitely"-neatly sums up the Eastern attitude to life and fate. In Indo-China, where Surgeon May spent eight years of his life, his native assistant smiled when May postponed lunch to operate on an emergency case. To what end? the assistant asked. The patient was of the coolie class, too starved to live much longer anyway. And who could be sure that death was not better than life? "In these parts," the assistant told him, "we think human life has no value; it will be hard to persuade...
...England in which this slow man got his seasoning was the land of what Henry James called "the classic abandoned farm of the rude forefather who had lost patience with his fate." In 1906, Frost had been farming for six years outside Deny, N.H., and had begun to teach school. He showed his verse to his wife, who liked it but never praised it. Frost kept this up until 1912, when he was 37; only then did he have enough money to buy passage to England for his family. As a poet he had no name whatever...
...smuggler; a woman abandons her fiance to the ghost of a woman he has never known. The best of them, The Beast in the Jungle, is a harrowing portrait of a man who waits all his life for a great experience and then, realizing that his fate is to be one man to whom absolutely nothing happens, throws himself on the tomb of the woman whose love he did not return...