Word: fates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fate...
...Greek tragedies, proud men and women roll their lives like dice against the gods and lose. Man proposes but fate disposes. Euripides, the most skeptical and psychologically minded of the classic tragedians, recognized that man is sometimes his own worst fate. Iphigenia in Aulis, presented last week at Manhattan's Circle in the Square in a translation by Minos Volanakis, shows men and women undoing themselves through ambition, power, lust, fear, guile and egocentric arrogance. At its heart, however, the play is a Grecian urn of tears, an incomparably moving lament for all who die young in war. Directed...
...aren't. It's just that the camera--instead of sticking to a man, dogging him step by step--focuses on what's static around him. Expanses of desert or mountain or sun-bleached wall. So the violence that ensues seems less the result of cowboy determination than of fate...
...took the Faculty two hours to debate the fate of the anti-Dow demonstrators. At 6 p.m., professors were heading for the doors, and President Pusey was anxious to be done with the whole affair. He had chaired the meeting with evident brusqueness, clearly had little enthusiasm for prolonged discussion of the Mallinckrodt business, and he had a press conference scheduled for 6:15. Stanley Hoffmann, professor of Government, rose to make a motion...
...exciting city. But if Mrs. Hicks gets elected, Boston will continue to decay until it becomes as stolid and as provincial as one of those Irish county seats that most of our people walked out of 150 years ago." The mustachioed poll worker's analysis of Boston's fate under Mrs. Hicks seems essentially accurate; but the idea that the Honorable Kevin H. White, Secretary of State for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts could turn Boston into the swinging Athens of America does seem open to question...