Word: fates
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Asked about Sakharov, the Nobel Peace prizewinner whose fate has been a mystery since he reportedly began a hunger strike May 2, Zamyatin grew red in the face. "You have 2 million unemployed!" he lectured American correspondents. "Academician Sakharov works. He has a wage of $1,125 a month. He lives well, he eats well, and he is all right in all respects...
...last hours Geoffrey's business is to reject finally, definitively, all redemptive possibilities: love (represented by the return of his wife Yvonne); ideological commitment (represented by his hall brother Hugh, who was Yvonne's lover); even such mild anodynes as friendship and nonalcoholic amusement. His fate is to touch bottom, literally in a den of thieves, and he is in haste to find it. The intelligence of Gallo's work lies in his recognition that the symbolic values of Under the Volcano's major figures, incidents and landscape are intrinsic and easy to catch. They need...
Mondale indeed has weathered ten debates in the past six months, while Reagan has not debated anyone in four years. But Mondale must avoid the fate of his former running mate, Jimmy Carter. In 1980 Carter scored more substantive points than Reagan, but the former actor won the debate on tone and style-and the election shortly thereafter. Mondale, though warm and funny in private, is stiff on television; while Reagan grins easily and naturally, Mondale sometimes bares his teeth like the runner-up in a beauty contest...
These involve the life and death of his son and the fate of his beloved starship Enterprise...
Both books first appeared as lengthy serializations in The New Yorker at the beginning of the year. Schell's is a sequel to his 1982 bestseller The Fate of the Earth. That work received widespread praise for its passionate, sometimes overwrought meditation on the madness of mutual assured destruction (MAD). Schell argued that the apocalyptic nature of nuclear war had rendered obsolete not only war itself but the concept of national sovereignty. He called on the superpowers to eliminate nuclear weapons and to "reinvent politics" by creating a world government loosely based on the pacifist ideals of Mahatma Gandhi...