Word: fates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remarkable suspense about the disposition of foregone conclusions. Fits starts off matter-of-factly: "The two people who died were in their early sixties." There has been, it turns out, a particularly gory murder-suicide in a small town. Nobody knows what drove this couple to such a fate. Speculation flourishes: "A division of opinion became evident between men and women. It was nearly always the men who believed and insisted that the trouble had been money, and it was the women who talked of illness." Yet the story's emphasis falls not on the victims but on the woman...
...What's in a Name?" (ESSAY, Aug. 18) should not play footloose with the truth. "The famous Miss Hogg" was named Ima by her father not out of cruelty but in honor of his deceased brother, who had earlier published an epic poem of the Civil War, The Fate of Marvin. The heroine was Ima, a paragon of womanhood, equally disposed to nurse the wounded soldiers of North and South. Miss Hogg did not "grow up scowling" but was a good-humored woman of gracious mien and poise, who because of her untiring benefactions to the people in education, mental...
...that this year he was asked back to star in The Magistrate, a Victorian farce. Edward manfully summons up the sullen shallowness of a 19-year-old rogue being passed off as a 14-year-old schoolboy, then trips up, literally ; and figuratively, during a hilarious escape scene. Theatrical fate, though, can be cruel: a popular local comedian was packing them in last week in the same role at nearby Aberdeen. So seats to see the Prince of players were going begging...
...scenes of chaos as anxious Frontier passengers, left stranded by a sudden shutdown, scrambled to find other airlines that would accept their tickets. As the paralysis wore on, groups of Frontier's 4,700 employees huddled in airport corridors and union halls to glean the slightest rumor of their fate...
Pakistani officials, meanwhile, issued conflicting statements about the fate of the four hijackers, all believed to be Palestinians. Some said all four survived. Others said one was killed, one was wounded and two were uninjured...