Word: cassandra
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...Daily Mirror's columnist Cassandra seemed convinced of Windsor's "close and cordial relationships with the Nazi regime...
...Houcke, 64. who did not even make a single public campaign speech. Former Socialist Premier Guy Mollet, who commands a smooth local machine as longtime mayor of Arras, ran 1,200 votes behind a little-known Gaullist. In Normandy, former Radical Premier Pierre Mendés-France, 55, dour Cassandra of the intellectual left, was hopelessly outdistanced by urbane Jean de Broglie. 41, De Gaulle's civil service chief. From Toulouse to Versailles, many other old-line politicians were defeated by newcomers who, in the French phrase, were "parachuted" into critical constituencies...
...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...