Word: fates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is more than one key to this door. First, a man should clearly recognize the source of his trouble; secondly, he must have faith. Faith means that a man should regard any disaster simply as a fate-determined blow which should be endured. From this follows a deliberate effort to fight away its consequences. No problem should ever be regarded as insuperable. There are always solutions to everything. What makes us think in this way is our belief that God created men to play the roles assigned to them. The God who has created us cannot be evil...
...usually means female counterparts of Saul Bellow's Dangling Man. The crucial difference is that today most heroines seem free of the need to huff and puff about the Big Questions: the loss of tradition, unpardonable guilt, the death of God. They certainly never ponder man's fate...
Burns' fate aside, can anything be done to hold down inflation while pushing up employment and incomes? Board members offer any number of ideas, but none that seems likely to be both effective and politically acceptable...
Near the end of A Handful of Dust ( 1934), Evelyn Waugh sentenced one of his characters to a bizarre fate. Tony Last was trapped forever in the backwaters of the Amazon, held prisoner by an illiterate half-breed who demanded, at gunpoint, that Tony read aloud to him the collected works of Charles Dickens. Waugh's barbed tribute to Dickens' universal popularity hilariously summed up an attitude then prevalent among the literati: Dickens was fine for soothing savage breasts, but he was not a writer with whom educated gents would care to spend much time...
...program moved through the House relatively intact, thanks to the skillful management of Speaker Thomas (Tip) O'Neill, who assembled an ad hoc energy committee to make sure he had tight control of the bill's fate on his turf. But in the Senate, where the rules of procedure do not permit tight organization as in the House, the plan has come completely unstuck. The dismemberment has been greatly aided by an intense lobbying effort by the oil industry, whose powerful friends include Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, chairman of the Finance Committee. Generally, the House voted to retain...