Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week poor, simple-minded Nina was in prison awaiting sentence for what the weekly Oggi could only describe as "the most senseless crime in Sicily's history." Once too often the hapless Salvatore had passed by the Giurlando farmhouse, and Nina had fired four fatal bullets into his body. "Do you repent of what you have done?" she was asked by the authorities. "Why should I repent?" she cried. "I was dishonored." The medical examination that declared her still a virgin meant nothing to Nina. Monotonously, tonelessly, she kept repeating: "He kissed me. He kissed me. He kissed...
...clear evidence of any influence of the death penalty on the homicide rates." In retorting to the arguments of law-enforcement authorities that the death penalty is needed to keep criminals from killing policemen, abolitionists point to the University of Pennsylvania Criminologist Thorsten Sellin's massive study of fatal attacks on policemen in some 260 Northern U.S. cities. By Sellin's mathematics, the rate of such attacks was slightly higher in death-penalty states than in abolition states...
Ideals & Swindles. Harris' social climb was not destined to last. As Wilde said of him: "Frank Harris has been to all the great houses of England-once!" There was a fatal ambiguity in Harris' character which ran through a hundred episodes in his life. He was a fire-breathing imperialist as editor of the Evening News and later a liberal pro-Boer in the Saturday Review. He both overtipped and cadged. He hated the posh and the powerful, but once he had the top hat on his own head, he was happy-until he ran out of words...
...great house in the famous duet with Tenor Richard Tucker as Don Alvaro. Later, dressed in the gold and black uniform of a Spanish grenadier, Warren soliloquized about his gravely wounded comrade-in-arms: "Morir! . . . Tremenda cosa!" ("To die! Tremendous thing!"). Finally he sang the great aria, "Urna fatale del mio destino" ("Fatal urn of my destiny"), giving it the flooding warmth of color and the vibrant depth of feeling that only he could command...
There is no time to lose, said the Rockefeller Institute's famed Microbiologist Rene Dubos. Reason: the nation's general health and health care were never better, and skillful use of drug combinations has kept resistant tubercle bacilli down to manageable proportions. But delay could be fatal, by giving time for resistant strains to get out of hand. "In 20 years," said Dr. Dubos, "it will be too late. It's now or never...