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Word: kismet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...following night, the Reds won the seventh game and the world championship on a bloop single in the ninth inning. In the Globe, Gammons wrote: "She is in retreat this morning, Olde Fenway; resting. Her affair with Kismet fell through at the very last, and while it was good, it was not to be this time...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Fenway Park: The mystique lives on in Boston's Back Bay | 10/8/1976 | See Source »

...Cousins, 60, the turn of events seemed like a kind of kismet. He had invested most of his professional life in SR and was bitter about surrendering it to two hot entrepreneurs younger than he (Charney is now 31; Veronis is 45). In exile, Cousins was bearish about the prospects of the Charney-Veronis enterprise. Events seem to have vindicated his acumen. "The reason that I left the Saturday Review" he said last week, "was that its fragmentation into four monthlies was not a sound intellectual concept. How could it then be a good business concept?" If Cousins was elated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Cousins Kismet | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

...about all I can tell if I'm not to give away the one twist of plot. I would suspect that, since most of the play's humor is sadly dated in a late fifties-early sixties sort of way (there are jokes about psychoanalysts, coffee bars and Kismet), the play's real interest lies in the fledgling hints it gives of Shaffer's present London and Broadway smash Sleuth. Suffice to say that director Liz Coe has struggled valiantly to keep things moving (though when the blocking finally resorts to sending the actors up and down ladders exhaustion might...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Black Comedy and the Public Eye | 10/23/1971 | See Source »

...Monday, 10 a. m. On my way to a possible course, I meet a friend. He is going to a Hum course. Open enrollment. Kismet, I say, and go with...

Author: By Arthur H. Lubow, | Title: Harvard The Class Struggle | 10/14/1970 | See Source »

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