Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three threads connect the three dis asters. Each of the fatal flights originated from La Guardia Airport. All were approaching airports. And all three 727s crashed at night. Neither the Federal Aviation Agency, which alone has the authority to ground airplanes, nor the airlines, which have 195 of them in service, has detected any structural flaws in the 727, the most thoroughly tested airliner in U.S. history. Early analyses of the Cincinnati and Salt Lake crashes indicate possible pilot error; the Chicago disaster is still a mystery (the plane's flight recorder has not yet been recovered from Lake...
Alban Berg's fine scores, expressively terse and textually dense, always pose the initial problem of hearing all that is essential. In the Violin Concerto, this dilemma assumes near-fatal proportions. The solo instrument is integrated into a large Wagnerian orchestra, which it must dominate with music marked mezzo-piano (or softer) seventy-five per cent of the time! Now Berg was no fool; the orchestra's dynamics are determined accordingly. But no orchestra can or will play continually softly, and the HRO proved no exception. The resulting acoustical imbalance seriously challenged the considerable prowess of violinist Charles Castleman...
McKeldin, who nominated Dwight D. Eisenhower at the 1952 Republican National Convention, surprised his listeners by recalling that he personally supported the late Senator Robert A. Taft. He aided Eisenhower, he said, because he felt Taft's Image as "Mr. Republican" would have proved fatal to the party's chances that year...
...more turned up at the door-in the grim guise of the Treasury, which firmly demanded that Dylan deliver the income taxes he had dodged for years. Something drastic had to be done, and Dylan unfortunately did it. He arranged for the first of his four famous and ultimately fatal lecture tours...
...stack their defense and hold Harvard to 112 yards rushing. Without a passing attack to keep the defenses honest. Harvard may be able to look good against teams like Columbia and Holy Cross, but against a tough defense like Cornell's, the lack of a versatile offense was fatal...