Word: fates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many local drivers expect--and hope--that the scheme introduced last week will meet the same fate as its predecessor ten years ago. But the City's traffic administration has changed radically since that time, and for that reason the new plan is not likely to be revoked. Ten years ago the City Council was directly responsible for all traffic regulations. But the Council relinquished that four years ago by handing over its authority to a traffic director who was to be appointed by the City Manager and responsible only to him. Robert Rudolph, then working in Baltimore's traffic...
...Fate, as the poet says, makes bad jokes." That was Euripides' sad comment on life, and today it can still make us think and cry. Especially if it is put on the stage with skill and passion. Thomas Babe has embellished an ancient theme with the trappings of 1967, and the result is such a success that few of us who saw his Trojan Women will soon get over...
...many compulsive gamblers admit that their strongest drive is to lose, not win. The classic example of this self-destructive type was Dostoevsky, whose incentive to write was often to get money for gambling; when he had it, he would boast that he was going to give fate "a punch on the nose!" Fate, of course, always ducked. In Dostoevsky and Parricide, Freud suggested that for the writer fate represented the father figure from whom he was asking punishment...
...often takes some probing to bring the anxieties up. In Texas, where Republican Senator John Tower and Democrat Ralph Yarborough were both touring, Houstonians seemed lore interested in the conditions of their drought-seared lawns than in the fate of the Middle East. In Amarillo, at the opposite end of the state, people were fretting over the closedown of a SAC base, not because the move involves any highfalutin' global implications but because it will cost the community $30 million a year in local income...
...People's Court from 1941 to 1945, Rehse lived up to the letter of Nazi law, which called upon the courts to act "not as men of justice whose eyes are masked. The court must view the idea and purposes of the state leadership as primary, and the fate of human beings as secondary...