Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is the side of Saroyan that brings on his failure. Philosophically, he has reached a dead end. The Laughing Matter ends with a suicide, a shooting, and a fatal automobile accident. The book builds up to a point of tension, but Saroyan's obsession with this "bad world" makes the plot resolution completely unsatisfying...
...property" as "reactionary." (Though he named no names, Russell's listeners easily conjured up visions of such Americans for Democratic Action-style Democrats as Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey and New York's Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.) "There are those who would have us drink of the fatal potion of national state socialism," said Russell. "We must resolutely reject their enticements...
...circumstances relating to his actual selection are unique, although shaded with sorrow. On March 10, 1869, Eliot was attending a routine Board of Overseer's meeting. His thoughts were interpreted by James: "At home his wife's fatal illness was drawing to a close ... She had been the romance of his life. The future without her must have looked like an empty loneliness...
Missing Man. The day after the autopsy, a brass M1 shell was found at a point near which the fatal shot had obviously been fired. The rifles of 21 men who had been nearest the position were checked by the New Jersey state police. The shell matched Edgar's Garand. The platoon was taken back to the area of the exercise and ordered to reconstruct the attack. Everyone turned up but Edgar, who had stolen a car and gone over the hill again...
...eighth and worst, required an operation, performed in Mexico. Last week, still convalescing, he prepared to open the season in Bogotá. Over breakfast with a few friends, he mused, "I once loved bullfighting like madness. Now I've lost the joy of fighting. That's when fatal things happen. Today I'll make twelve, thirteen, fourteen thousand dollars-but it doesn't seem to matter...