Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Czar's torment is terrible-but is it madness or fatal grief? He lives out his last days in the hollow splendor of his Russian palace, haunted by the child king he has murdered, as frightened of his own evil as of the false pretender who is coming through the winter forests to kill him. At last he dies, and in dying Boris Godunov demands an all-but-impossible mystic triumph of the bassos who sing his tragic role: his final prayer must be torn from a soul already lost, from lips already dead. Yet in the last...
From the first note of the Esultate that introduces Otello, McCracken was in perfect control. His powerful portrayal of Otello's fatal jealousy had just the right measure of Moorish grief to provide motive enough for murder, and agony enough for a whole flight of heroic high notes. His voice sailed easily over the orchestra even when the musicians were at excessively symphonic pitch-the one element of real excitement in an otherwise hushed performance...
...enemy was driven away from a major U.S. military base last week after a sneak raid in which it claimed five casualties, one of them fatal, and kept more than 12,000 men on a 48-hour alert. The attacker was only a familiar microbe, but it demonstrated a dramatic killing power...
This kind of meningitis used to be fatal in 70% of cases. But now the Navy doctors had no need to panic. It was at this same San Diego base 20 years ago that sulfa drugs had proved an almost sure cure for meningococcal meningitis and, no less important, a superb preventive. Wilkowski, severely ill, had to have sulfadiazine intravenously, so he got penicillin as well. All 80 men in his company were ordered to take sulfadiazine tablets twice a day for three days...
...Pierre admire the murderer for the reckless fury of his act ("We could have arranged a good life for him," says Maria, "and perhaps I would have loved him"), but he lies dead in a field. Maria and Pierre want to love one another, but their torpor is as fatal to love as the murderer's angry bullet. At the hotel in Madrid, Maria lies wrapped in "the odor of their dying love," listening to the sounds from the adjoining room as Claire prepares to receive Pierre in a love equally doomed to dissolution...