Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adenauer is too canny and too principled a man to be seduced by Germany's ancient and fatal temptation to play East against West. But once diplomatic relations are established again in Moscow, Russia counts on there being other opportunities-and other Chancellors...
Nobody is noble in these stories. These are the "maimed souls" and the ferociously maternal types whose footless magnanimity seems unfailingly to destroy those around them. In the title story, the fatal female is the grandmother who chatters, "People are certainly not nice like they used to be," and nags her son's vacationing family into driving off on a side road. Instead of finding the six-columned mansion she insists she remembers, they run into three escaped convicts who rob and shoot the lot, the babbling old feather-wit last of all. Good Country People looses Mrs.Hopewell...
...much danger there might be. Of five manufacturers that have shipped vaccine, two (Parke, Davis & Co. and Pitman-Moore) had spotless records: no reported cases of polio after use of their vaccine. But the U.S. (mostly western) total of such cases reached 78: after Cutter vaccine, 59 (five fatal); after Eli Lilly & Co.'s, 14; and after Wyeth's, five...
...This fatal hesitancy got him shot to death in his first picture, and he meets the same end in his current film. Undoubtedly, he will be revived and shot to death another time. Between screams, Lori Nelson unfortunately has enough breath left to engage John Agar in just about the limpest dialogue since the invention of talking pictures...
...Ovid's poem. Mankind is punished for the great sin which the Greeks called hubris-overweening pride. "I am too great for Fortune's power to injure," says arrogant Niobe, proud mother of seven sons and seven daughters. The boast is scarcely uttered, when Apollo looses 14 fatal arrows from his bow. "She would have been happiest of all mothers," comments Ovid, "had she only not thought herself the happiest." Over and above the turn of Fortune's wheel, there is an inexorable change-the passage of time and the certainty of death. Like his contemporary, Horace...