Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assumption of infallibility is unacceptable because occasional small errors in Rowse's text challenge us to question his larger statements: "Not being a man of action," he writes, "Hamlet's first thought on receiving the fatal injunction [the ghost's command to kill his uncle] is suicide...
These two lines, of course, are spoken before Hamlet has received "the fatal injunction" and his first thoughts when he does receive it contain no reference to suicide. This error in turn casts doubt on the assumption that "Hamlet is not a man of action" and hurts Rowse's evaluation of the play...
...French physicians, led by Dr. Georges Mathé, got the idea from the emergency treatment improvised in 1958 for victims of a reactor accident in Yugoslavia-five nuclear scientists who got what would ordinarily have been a fatal overdose of radiation. Four were pulled through and are still doing well, thanks to injections of bone marrow. The radiation that almost killed the patients had made them able to accept other people's marrow cells, instead of rejecting them through nature's familiar "immune reaction...
Then, although he was kept in an atmosphere as nearly germ-free as possible, the patient got sick. He developed a usually fatal form of tuberculosis: evidently some bacilli had been dormant in his body, and the radiation had destroyed his defenses against infection. Somehow, today's miracle drugs pulled him through, and his new marrow is still manufacturing new cells...
...that authorities had also found a marked map, showing the course of the President's motorcade, in Oswald's rented room. 'It was a map tracing the location of the parade route,' the district attorney said, 'and this place [the Texas School Book Depository, a warehouse from which the fatal shots were fired] was marked with a straight line.' Mr. Wade said Oswald had marked the map at two other place, 'apparently places which he considered a possibility for an assassination.'" (New York Times...