Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state these propositions neither lightly nor as easy generalizations. We believe . . . that what people read is deeply important; that ideas can be dangerous; but that the suppression of ideas is fatal . . . Freedom itself is a dangerous way of life, but it is ours...
...prefrontal lobotomies, Dr. Freeman reports, the operation itself proved fatal to 24 patients (3.6%), whereas among almost twice as many of the transorbital type there were only 20 deaths (1.7%). Undesirable physical results, such as partial paralysis, loss of bladder control and convulsions, affected 51.5% after prefrontal operations, only 5.2% after transorbital. Undesirable social complications, such as indolence, profanity and sexual irregularities, also appeared ten times as often among prefrontal cases...
Died. Charles Winter Wood, 82, Negro teacher and actor who won critical applause for his brief portrayal of De Lawd in The Green Pastures (1935) following the fatal illness of the role's famed creator, Richard Berry Harrison; in New York City...
...shall be dead in a quarter of an hour . . . The house is surrounded, and Hitler is charging me with high treason. In view of my services in Africa ... I am to have the chance of dying by poison. The two generals have brought it with them. It's fatal in three seconds. If I accept, none of the usual steps will be taken against my family . . . It's all been prepared to the last detail. I'm to be given a state funeral ... In a quarter of an hour, you . . . will receive a telephone call from...
...knife and gun and fatal blast...