Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bruce W. Klunder, 27, was a big, mild, bespectacled man, a sort of Clark Kent of the pulpit. But within him burned a fierce- and, as it turned out, fatal-sense of indignation...
...plan that strike leaders condemn as the first step toward socialized medicine and an unwarranted invasion of the privacy be tween doctor and patient. Despite a number of possibly preventable deaths, and two doctors held for questioning, there was so far no real case against the medical profession for "fatal negligence," thanks largely to the service degarde - a skeleton service set up in major hospitals to handle medical emergencies. It worked so well that many Belgians were wondering if the country really needed as many doctors...
...this strategy involves the liberal's relationship with the Negro: the liberal must again urge patience. Demonstrations in the South should focus on specific grievances that the Northern moderate can comprehend easily. If violence occurs, blame must lie clearly with the white Southerner. In the North, violence could prove fatal to the President's chances; the white is incapable of understanding why irrational treatment of the Negro should elicit an irrational response. In general, direct action in the North should be discouraged this summer...
...carried away in tramcars. There is a panicked whisper of running feet, a scream, a distant moan. The chorus is a clamor of wails-"the rats, the rats." Trombones trail down the declining moan of an air-raid siren, and the orchestra shrieks in echoed despair. In a long, fatal moment, the music dies on the slowly fading tremor of a gong. And in that long moment last week, a hushed audience at London's Royal Festival Hall perceived the chilling profundity of Roberto Gerhard's The Plague, an oratorio of terror based on the novel by Albert...
...were not for a fatal three minute lapse against Rutgers, the Crimson could be undefeated. Midway in the second period Rutgers overcame a Harvard lead with four quick goals. As a result of a penalty the Crimson had a one-man advantage for three minutes in the fourth period but could not score...