Word: fatales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Knowledge of the other person is essential to good giving, but here, as in other areas, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The information that someone is a music lover is insufficient. Unless his exact tastes are known, it is fatal to give him a recording (he is bound to have or to hate the Callas version of Tosca you have chosen). One ready but unfortunate way to avoid such pitfalls is the all-purpose gift. And even here, care should be taken; the generally safe basket of gourmet food may play havoc with a dieter...
...confederation of regions with considerable political autonomy for each. Ojukwu's Ibos dominate the oil-rich East, and they want to keep things that way. Gowon, commanding 7,000 troops who are armed with sophisticated weapons and stirred by a stern Moslem faith, could easily put intense-perhaps fatal -pressure on Ojukwu's single battalion of 2,500 men. If he decides to, Nigeria may yet add to its grisly record before...
...merely showing his teeth?) at his twelve-year-old orphan nephew. "But five million dollars charming, you're not." What Uncle means to say in his usual genial way is that since he stands to inherit Barnaby's estate if Barnaby should have a fatal accident, he intends to make sure that Barnaby has a fatal accident-fast...
...pioneers of France's New Novel-which is about a decade old now-Robbe-Grillet feels that nothing is so fatal to literature as a concern with "saying something." In his earlier and even more maddening works (The Voyeur, Jealousy), he regarded his characters as objects, and he has extended his experiments in the baffling abstract film scenarios for Last Year at Marienbad and L'Immortelle. "The world is neither significant nor absurd," says...
Crime was supposed to disappear under Communism, and most of the East European press behaves as if it has. But last week Vecernje Novosti featured a fatal stabbing in a Serbian family feud, Politika Ekspres headlined: "READER CAPTURES DANGEROUS CRIMINAL FROM PICTURE IN OUR PAPER...