Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Forlorn. Murder at the Wall was inevitable during the Christmas interlude, for the arrangement by which Berlin's Communists had permitted 700,000 West Berliners into East Berlin during the holidays could only have its fatal temptations for Easterners who wished to reciprocate. In a sense, it was curious that more East Berliners did not try to break out. To hear the West Berliners tell it last week, the contrast they found with their living standards in West Berlin was appalling. Nowhere did the disparity between East and West come clearer than at the crossing points themselves. West Berliners...
...family packed up and left for England. Soon thereafter, they were unwillingly followed by the party's five organizers, a woman who had gone to the party in African dress, and eight white civil servants (including an assistant prisons commissioner) accused of having been there on the fatal night. Along with their families, the deportees were hustled abruptly onto London-bound airplanes-leaving behind them lost jobs and abandoned homes. What began as a celebration of "the end of the white man's burden" had become only a white man's hangover...
Thus Parkland doctors thought that one bullet struck Kennedy in the throat, just below the necktie knot, another in the back of the head, and either would have been fatal. But the autopsy indicated that the first bullet had struck Kennedy in the back, some six inches below the collar line, and that the throat wound had been made by a fragment of the last bullet, which literally exploded in Kennedy's head. Parkland doctors, who worked over Kennedy as he lay on his back, apparently missed the first wound. And it might not have been fatal. The bullet...
...Fatal Flaw. Such a novel, if it is to be any good, must be a study in the nature of power and the behavior of those who seek it. Shakespeare set his great stage on this theme, but otherwise things have sadly changed. Uneasy still lies the head that wears a crown-the $80,000-a-year presidency. Nobody tells old President Edwards, due for mandatory retirement, anything he does not want to hear. He is even provided with the tragic flaw of the Shakespearean hero. He likes to pinch women's gloves from dime-store counters and file...
...young and vital man as John F. Kennedy tragically demonstrates the great vulnerability of the President of the United States. For the fourth time this century, a President has died or been killed while in office. Furthermore, both former Presidents Truman and Eisenhower have been threatened by possible fatal dangers: Truman by an assassination attempt, Eisenhower by a heart attack...