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. This anti-hero lashes out at his fate with visceral scorn and waspish humor. Nicol Williamson makes him a good sight larger than most heroes...
TCHAIKOVSKY: SYMPHONY NO. 4 (Columbia). From the first brassy challenge to fate to the booming triumph of the finale, Eugene Ormandy sweeps grandly through the Fourth Symphony, pulling from the Philadelphia Orchestra its famed bold and burnished sound. Nor does he slight the plaintive moments, or the whimsical. Ormandy has already made topnotch recordings of Tchaikovsky's Fifth and Sixth, and the three performances are now available as a package...
Justice v. Fate. This monistic vision falsifies life. Man is a beast - he may also be a saint, a sage, or an averagely decent human being. Like Arthur Miller, another public accountant of guilt, Sartre wants to even the score of past wrongs, to wrench justice from fate. This mentality is impervious to the tragic sense, the view of existence best expressed by Ortega y Gasset when he said: "The condition of man is essential uncertainty. Man feels himself lost, shipwrecked." Nor can Sartre, as an atheist, accept the dispensation of Christian grace, which redeems the sinner without denying...
...Vision of Battlements is a book to be read twice-once allegro and once more with allegory added. It is perhaps the conflict between classic fate and Christian eschatology which made the book so painful to Novelist Burgess that he suppressed it for so long. Yet he must have known that on the surface it was an amazingly successful first novel, showing his later power to move into the past with Nothing like the Sun, his Elizabethan tour de force, or the Orwellian future with The Clockwork Orange (TIME, Feb. 15, 1963). Burgess has said that he was surprised...
...crack after the election: "When I was a boy, I was told that anyone could be President, and I believed it." Or the comment he made in 1960 when he was caught in a traffic jam at the Washington airport as Charles de Gaulle arrived: "It seems my fate is always to be getting in the way of national heroes." All memorable enough-and merchandisable enough. But even Stevenson didn't coin enough to fill a book...