Word: fates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While other union captains merely fumed, Shanker mounted his power play, operating through the teachers' retirement board, whose trustees include three former teachers loyal to him. These men held the fate of New York in their hands. They simply told Big Mac that they would not buy the retirement board's remaining $150 million share of Big Mac bonds. Without that investment, the state would have to withhold a $250 million payment due last week, and the city would be forced to default...
...book's best scene, for example, a jealous and not-too-bright husband tries to find his wife at the J-Bar Korral by driving through it in a truck. Aurora's plain, long-suffering daughter is as poignant as her mother is flashy, and her grim fate at the novel's end seems out of keeping with all the earlier slapstick. Yet McMurtry's skill and compassion all but hide his incongruities...
...such films' failure to transcend the problems they raise lies in their use of the stereotyped plots and characters of romantic comedy and tragedy. The logic of these genres leads either to a happy ending brought about by Fortune or an unhappy ending brought about by Fate; in either case the basic situation is left unchanged and the possibility of meaningful human action is denied...
...THERE IS a flaw in the fund drive it is in the de-emphasis of plans for an additional complex on Observatory Hill near the Quadrangle. University officials have decided to put the fate of that complex in the same basket as the Quad's future as a House system, thus stalling its development until a new House plan is chosen. Such reasoning seems silly if you consider that much of the Quad's lack of popularity lies in its distance from the present Soldiers Field facilities. The new complex will tilt that imbalance even heavier toward the River House...
...professor of dead languages. All are embittered by a society that ignores or trivializes their art. The story of Mozart's life is turned into an inane fairy tale for a film strip. The novelist-who might well be echoing Author Gaddis' own disenchantment about the fate of The Recognitions-notes that his last royalty check was for $53.52. For the lover of ancient languages, there is an "educator" saying, "In terms of the ongoing situation to tangibilitate the utilization potential of this one to one instructional medium in such a meaningful learning experience that these kids...