Word: fates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Neither had rowed before coming to Harvard, so they did not indicate on their rooming applications that they were interested in the sport. They say they are happy, however, that fate brought them together...
...great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration, searches for the armoire or settee that can serve as the objective correlative for a character's unspoken, perhaps dramatically unspeakable, fears and fancies. One may therefore wish to approach Swann in Love or The Bostonians undemandingly, almost as one would an antique show, browsing and ruminative but not expecting to make powerful emotional connections with the objects...
Although some sticking points remain, notably the fate of about 2.5 million residents of the colony entitled to hold Hong Kong British passports, any settlement at all was welcome after the rocky and rancorous negotiations. As the expiration date on the British lease approached, Hong Kong businesses planning 15-year loans and long-term projects grew increasingly uncomfortable. In September 1982, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, fresh from her triumph in the Falkland Islands, went to Peking and, somewhat injudiciously, declared that Britain would "stick by" its treaties regarding Hong Kong. For their part, the Chinese insisted that the issue...
Presidential contests naturally overshadow the rest of a national election, but the top of the ticket does not necessarily control the fate of those farther down. The party of a re-elected presidential incumbent may profit richly from his hold on the electorate, as the Democrats did in 1964 under Lyndon B. Johnson. Or it can actually lose ground in Congress, as the Republicans did in 1956 under Dwight D. Eisenhower. In either case, races for Congress and Statehouses turn to a large extent on local issues and personalities, with plenty of help from money and mud. Last week, with...
...after the Louis report appeared, Western journalists learned that the Soviet Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics had just published a learned article on the origins of the universe that was ostensibly written by the Nobel laureate. Both actions were evidently designed to palliate Western concern over the fate of Sakharov and his wife Yelena Bonner, 61, who was sentenced last month to five years of internal exile on charges of spreading anti-Soviet slander. Dissident forces reported that Bonner was preparing an appeal...