Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...setting, the pattern of the classical Greek drama which was Author Compton-Burnett's favorite reading as a child. Like Sophocles' Oedipus, struggling to gauge the future and discovering that it twists horribly back into his own past, the characters in Two Worlds march blindly to their fate, doomed from the start but always demanding, with the eloquence and dignity of Aeschylean heroes, their right to respect as well as humiliation. They always get plenty of both from Ivy Compton-Burnett...
...upon to begin its course anew. There is Free Will when the movement of the ball fortuitously heads toward one of the flippers and is hurled back; or when the machine is skillfully struck to better the course of the ball. But the way the ball bounces -that is fate, chance, call it what you will...
...delegates were kept talking right up to closing time. The Assembly was asked to settle the fate of Italy's former colonies, a question popped into U.N.'s lap when the Big Four were unable to agree on it. After heated debate, the Assembly firmly shelved the question until its next session. Next day, it was the distant figure of runaway Communist Gerhart Eisler which agitated the Assembly. Poland's Juliusz Katz-Suchy asked the Assembly to conduct an inquiry into Eisler's rights of political asylum. The Assembly voted against allowing discussion of the Eisler...
...poll of Radcliffe freshmen, sophomores, and juniors this week will help decide the fate of the 1950 Yearbook. Jane Rainie '50, Junior Class president announced last night...
...fate of the freshman lacrosse team against Yale on the Business School field tomorrow hangs the success or failure of the Crimson season. The game is scheduled...