Word: fates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...18th century enlightenment could be fully realized for the first time anywhere. General Washington called himself "a citizen of the great republic of humanity at large," and countless divines proclaimed Americans to be God's chosen people. "We are acting for all mankind," said Thomas Jefferson. Beneficent fate "imposed on us the duty of proving what is the degree of self-government in which a society may venture to leave its individual members...
...hanging breathless on thy fate...
...tongue palsied, eyes of stone, he must hear out his wife as she reviles him with reptilian glee. With a last convulsive effort he sits up, as if in his coffin, and spits at her, full in the face. It is Strindberg's riposte to man's fate...
...whole heritage of his people, their literature, their myths and legends, their wariness born of defeat and exile, their toughness born of a stubborn struggle for survival. In his work, he shows how the present (his and theirs) was seeded in the past, how man's fate now as always reflects the unstable mixture of the unattainable and the possible...
...Historical sequences disappear. Dylan discovers America, collides with a bowling ball and a girl from France, and, as he leaves, meets Columbus in search of land. Historical reference points dissolve in a montage. Einstein apeaprs disguised as Robin Hood, sniffing drainpipes and reciting the alphabet. "With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves/ let me forget about today until tomorrow...