Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Producers have long tried to find a way of escaping the power of the Manhattan drama critics. In recent years they have found a lifesaver: theater parties. Critical condemnation can still be fatal, but more and more shows cheerfully survive a panning, thanks to theater-party cash...
...Schein also hopes for evidence that antimatter, recently created in man's laboratories, exists in nature. Antimatter is annihilated instantly when it hits ordinary matter. But antimatter particles arriving from space may penetrate the earth's thin outer atmosphere to the 120,000-ft. level without suffering fatal collisions. If one of them hits the photographic plates, it should make a tremendous splash...
...fated by a small, icy crack in his being. The reader is forced to look backward over the story and to revise-what seemed love is suddenly revealed as the very inability to love, what seemed a wise or manly action toward a friend is seen as the fatal inability really to be close to anyone. Eaton achieves futility and failure in his middle years as others by hard work and determination achieve success. In a memorable finale, Alfred Eaton, the poor little rich boy of 50, is pictured killing time at the fashionable New York clubs, compulsively seeking...
...Plympton-Mill corner a newly-built garage has cut off the previous sight line and has made the intersection a blind corner. Winter weather may make the current near-misses into fatal crashes and Plympton Street into a death...
Ireland, in the view of Mayo-born Novelist George Moore, was "a fatal disease" from which "it is the plain duty of every Irishman to disassociate himself." To the waspish eye of Novelist Honor Tracy, herself part Irish, Ireland is less a disease than a delusion. Its inhabitants live as snug and moist as a colony of clams in "a little bubble of [their] own imagining," feeding their dreams on "the piccolo, morte that lurks in the flagon...