Word: fates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After two weeks of practice, Davis' fate with the Pats is still unknown. He had the misfortune of suffering a severe muscle pull in his back during the first week of practice (the injury is not related to the vertebrae fracture he suffered at Harvard, however). He consequently was laid out in a hospital for the next five days, missing vital practice days and the rookies' first scrimmage. "He was right in there with the rest of them until his injury," said defensive line coach Jesse Richardson Saturday. "He was quick, had good moves, and grasped fundamentals soundly...
...necessary to accept Freud to see gambling as a challenge of fate, an existentialist insistence on man's freedom to waste himself and his substance, if he so chooses. Others see in gambling an essentially childish desire for unearned reward, and a yearning for magic-which may explain why gamblers are notoriously superstitious...
Some want to make gambling into a prototype of capitalism; after all, runs the argument, capitalism is based on some form of gambling or at least risk taking. True enough. Thrift and savings are essential to capitalism, but so is daring investment. The gambler's blind challenge of fate is different from the investor's bet on the future. Still, the gambler and the man who "plays" the stock market have certain things in common: a desire to make money without working for it in the ordinary sense, and a desire to reach beyond the monotony of life...
...mercy of the Soviet bureaucracy. At the Fourth Congress of the Soviet Writers' Union last May, Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn (One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich) circulated a statement charging that there were "more than 600 writers whom the Writers' Union obediently handed over to their fate in prisons and camps." Solzhenitsyn's letter was a daring diatribe against censorship that accused the censors of making Russian literature "something infinitely poorer, flatter and lower than it actually is." It was signed by 82 of the 500 delegates to the Congress and smuggled out to be published...
...career in Yugoslavia. Back home last week, he learned that he has a good chance of becoming director-general of the Tanyug News Agency, for which he has been reporting. The fifth foreign correspondent to be expelled from China since the Cultural Revolution began, Bogunovic predicts a similar fate for most of his 30 or so colleagues in Peking. "No witnesses are wanted," he says, "whose knowledge and experience go beyond the facts that are printed on the posters...