Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fatal Excess. Just before the voting, De Gaulle abandoned his favorite pose of being above party politics. In a powerful pre-election speech on nationwide TV and radio, he urged France to vote against the old-line parties and support his candidates, who were guardians all of "the good of the state, the fate of the Republic, the future of France." The most damaging blow to old-line parties was struck by one of their most respected leaders. Socialist Mollet. An implacable antiCommunist, he is one of the chief targets of France's Reds, who call him a "social...
Women. The very word has a chilling, antonymous ring. It is faith beclouding reason, Art sapping Life. And it cannot be allowed to happen. Oh Colledge builded by Incest Mather and his helpmeet Prurience, take not this fatal step...
...swirl of libel suits, the bitter campaign of Republican Edgar Hiestand and Los Angeles Councilman Everett Burkhalter centered around Hiestand's membership in the John Birch Society. Hiestand lost. Another Bircher, smooth-talking Republican John Rousselot, also found the society plus a new district a politically fatal combination, succumbed to Assemblyman Ronald Brooks Cameron...
...delivery was 18 days. "As a result, it occasionally occurred that an otherwise healthy young woman dropped dead of a pulmonary embolism as she was getting into a taxi with her baby to leave the lying-in hospital." Confinement after delivery is now little more than three days, and fatal blood clotting in such cases is virtually unknown...
Charles Grodin seems to get his skin, as well as his clothes, at Brooks Bros. Director Peter Glenville propels the play toward its one compelling conclusion: that life is a fatal adventure...