Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because burns are among the most common disfiguring, crippling and fatal accidents, physicians and surgeons have tried almost every imaginable therapy. In the 100 years since Lister discovered asepsis, practitioners have hopefully tried phenol, boric acid, picric acid, iodoform, tannic acid, sulfa drugs and ACTH, only to wind up, after a few years, disappointed in all of them. Now another new and seemingly miraculous treatment has been discovered, and once again doctors are hopeful-this time with better reason...
Necessary Mystery. Still, Moreau makes no effort at all to find parts that express so much as her passing mood, let alone anything substantial of her own life. She far prefers that other people choose her roles for her; to make the choice herself, she thinks, would invite a fatal struggle with her vanity. "If I get concerned with what kind of part I would like to play," she says, "I would then start to wonder what roles would be good for me, good for my career, pleasing to the public. Life does not invite this choice, and neither should...
...sharp as thumbtacks, dug at his eyes. "I found myself at 13,000 feet in a terrible position," Bonatti said later. His face was rimmed with ice, and he was in excruciating pain. "But we all three had to remain absolutely immobile, because the slightest movement could have been fatal...
...planes passed, they were 1,200-1,700 ft. apart vertically, three to four miles laterally, a safe distance on anybody's scope. Yet distances can be deceptive in the air, and the investigators recognized the possibility that Carson might have swung his ship into a fatal fall because he believed a mid-air crash was imminent. The piston-driven plane was not equipped with the all but indestructible flight recorder, which indicates every yaw, pitch and twitch of the controls on U.S. jet airliners, and which probably would bear evidence of the cause of such an accident...
...many fatal deficiencies elude the producers? Asking himself, David Susskind found it all "unanswerable." "I have never been so shocked, so surprised in my life. What happened to my taste? Could I be this wrong?" He could...