Word: fates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE is John Osborne's Inferno, the journey of an "irredeemably mediocre" middle-aged soul through a modern hell, all the while lashing out at his fate with visceral scorn and waspish humor. Nicol Williamson makes him a good sight larger than most heroes...
AMALIA RODRIGUEZ, one of Portugal's most marketable exports, is queen of the lemon-flavored café song known as fado. (Fado literally means fate and is always cruel.) Amalia's new album, called the Soul of Portugal (Columbia), contains a dozen fados (Corner of Sin, Useless Angel), similar in mood to Edith Piaf's chansons but stamped with Portuguese rhythms and Amalia's tangy timber...
...short, to define a phrase which expresses the workings of an idea in the hands of hundreds or perhaps thousands of people is to ignore one of its most salient features -- mysterious happenings -- and commit it to an orthodox fate...
...Nazi-controlled Slovakia in 1942, this perfectly played Czech masterpiece reduces an awesome tragedy to human size. Its seriocomic hero is a well-meaning Aryan nonentity (Josef Kroner) who seizes the button shop owned by a feeble, trusting old Jewess (Ida Kaminska) and finds himself a partner in her fate...
...spheres of moral choice." And Bertrand de Jouvenel has suggested that various types of future should be portrayed on TV, allowing the public to vote in a referendum on "the future of your choice." The chief message of the futurists is that man is not trapped in an absurd fate but that he can and must choose his destiny-a technological reassertion of free will...