Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basic components of many proteins) and is in danger of severe mental retardation. Treatment consists simply of giving the child foods that are specially processed to remove phenylalanine. In galactosemia. the inability to convert galactose (which the body derives from milk) to glucose, untreated infants are prey to fulminating, fatal infections, and survivors suffer severe physical and mental retardation and blindness. The answer is to cut out milk, or anything containing the galactose molecule...
While PKU is rare (once in 25,000 births) and galactosemia is probably even rarer, one in every 16 U.S. infants is born with some defect, many of which, untreated, may be handicapping or fatal, said O'Connor. And the scientists are closing in on other disorders suspected of being transmitted by genes, the giant molecules of heredity: diabetes, gout, some forms of mongolism, cretinism, cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, the inability to make protective antibodies against bacteria, and many other disorders of the blood, besides obvious physical defects...
...novel's plot and people, and he has diluted Old Fitzgerald with a spritz of psychiatric competence. What emerges in his script with simple clarity is what is true and beautiful in the book: the story, essentially Fitzgerald's own, of a man who makes the always-fatal mistake of pleasing a woman and forgetting to please himself...
...honeymoon that imperceptibly enlarges through the '20s like a tapeworm steadily devouring the doctor's morale as a man. She demands incessant attention; he gives it-partly for medical reasons, partly from husbandly affection, partly because he is too weak to resist: he has always had "a fatal desire to please." He begins to neglect his work, live on her money, belabor the booze. The tabloids play him up as a "playboy psychiatrist." And strangely, by a species of bloodless transfusion, she gets stronger as he gets weaker. In the end, she breaks her dependency, breaks the marriage...
...portfolio, he has won himself a modest but lasting place in our literature; at his worst, whenever he gets involved in Issues or Ideas (both with capital I's), he falls flatter than Bahgh-arch, the Armenian flat bread. There is a third capitalized I that has proved fatal to Saroyan: the plain, unsimple I of his boundless...