Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world of the square. The word square means four-cornered, or lacking flexibility. Of course, we all have some element of squareness in us. But the point is that the beat refuses to have any real dialogue with the world of the square, and this to me is fatal...
...Surprisingly, another problem microbe is Aerobacter aerogenes, found naturally on many food plants and in water and milk, as well as in man's digestive tract. Once rated almost harmless, it is now a killer. In sum, optimists who think it is old-fashioned nonsense to talk about fatal "blood poisoning" are wrong. There are now more deaths from septicemia than there were before the antibiotic age, said Dr. Finland...
...moderate degree of success by satirically trampling on virtually all of the contemporary fads and values, even he doesn't know who is buying his books. What's more, he doesn't seem to care, as he refuses to write for a particular audience. "I think it would be fatal to do it," he commented. And then he added philosophically, "When I stop pleasing me, I might as well quit...
Embezzled Heaven (Rhombus-Film; Louis de Rochemont) is a reasonably loyal German adaptation, dubbed in English, of the 1940 bestseller in which Franz (The Song of Bernadette) Werfel proposed a parable of modern man's fatal confusion, as he saw it, of the material and the spiritual worlds. The heroine is a dim-witted old peasant woman (Annie Rosar), who works as a cook in a wealthy Austrian family, saves all her pennies to educate her nephew (Kurt Meisel) for the priesthood. Actually the cook does not care a fig for the nephew. All she wants is a priest...
...Leading": "Probably no powerful country in history has had quite so dead a government as the U.S. has today. It is not just a matter of the infirmities of its two principal figures-President Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles. Apart from the decrepitude of the one and the fatal illness of the other, the government itself is scarcely operative...