Word: cassandras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Destiny is simply the relentless logic of each day we live." See THE WORLD, The Trouble with Cassandra...
...Destiny." says Cassandra in Jean Giraudoux's Tiger at the Gates, ''is simply the relentless logic of each day we live." Yet the logic of the day is not always immediately apparent. A great many days are filled with portents of doom, but destiny may look quite different...
Europe last week seemed like Cassandra's backyard. Imminent and grave crisis was predicted over Berlin (see following story). Yet the relentless logic of the cold war suggested that while the danger was considerable, the Russians really had little room for maneuver if the West stood firm...
...Cassandra may yet be proved right about many things: she has all too often been right before. Still, gloom is not necessarily foresight, and pessimism is not the same as logic...
...Finally he sent a 20-page personal plea to Home Secretary Henry Brooke. After "careful consideration," Brooke stuck to his guns and refused to cancel the order. But each legal defeat brought a new wave of British sympathy for Soblen, described last week by the Daily Mirror's Cassandra as "this wretched man." Cheered the Daily Mail: "The Soblen story is that of one sick man against the world-and so far he has beaten the world. Mr. Brooke has been running about to please the American government, with the result that he finds Soblen still on his back...