Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...perhaps even of more importance to the latter class than to the former, for they endeavor in the last day, perhaps hour or two, before an examination to learn what others have taken care to study as it came. An interruption at such a time is often fatal to the success of the hard worker, and a cause of entire failure to the easy-goer; and since it is mostly through this class of non-workers that the custom is made necessary, it is upon them that we would impress the fact that there are times when it is impossible...
...fatal pessimism of the Nation. Behold the iconoclast which rudely defaces the temple and erects nowhere a chime for the devout...
...compare a piece of work treated in a bloody, filthy, or mutilating manner to the ranting of a poor tragedian. There is also another reason for this first principle: if the work is not done cleanly it presents an appearance of bungling or hesitation, and nothing is more fatal than that to the impressiveness of the murder. If the artist does not make it plain that he has treated his subject coolly, deliberately, and carefully, there is reason to doubt his courage, and the murder is not, as it should be, entirely horrible...
...excellence of the Holyoke crew in the fall is likely to prove fatal to them this spring. Two of the crew are to pull on the University, two in the Freshmen crew, one is training for the single-scull race and will not pull with a crew, while the sixth man has given up rowing altogether...
...better, and when working hard in an examination with perhaps a fair chance of being dropped staring him in the face if he fails to do well, the chances are that any sudden announcement of being put on "special probation," or what not, may be fatal. Let men be told after having passed their examination, or even summon them and then report conditions; but to mention casually to a man writing for dear life with a long paper, a limited time, and an aching and possibly slightly muddled head, that "you were conditioned in - ," results, in nine cases...