Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many such patients there are." says Dr. Conn, "is anybody's guess." They run the gamut from those with strikingly severe symptoms to those detected only by chance chemical tests. And the picture is complicated because some victims of a rare, rapidly progressive and fatal form of high blood pressure develop an aldosterone excess apparently as an effect, rather than a cause, of their original disease. But whatever the statistics, the volunteers who pedaled themselves silly on Dr. Conn's exercise bicycles have a good deal to show for their sweat. At least 70% of aldosterone-tumor patients...
...boxing is everything." Though he was seven years older, he had known Morley back when they were both reporters on the Toronto Star. He and Morley, a competent amateur middleweight, liked to box together. It was as simple as that, but Scott felt "pushed aside and not needed." One fatal day he wangled himself in as timekeeper at one of the regular Hemingway-Callaghan bouts. The trouble lay with Scott-so bemused by literary hero worship that he forgot to call time. Hemingway was getting badly marked up by the "Toronto Kid," and the round ran four minutes...
...Immunity. Though gonorrhea is less dramatic than syphilis in its crippling and death-dealing powers, it is not to be taken lightly. It not only produces painful symptoms, but also can cause sterility, blindness in the newborn, crippling arthritis and fatal heart disease. And to public health crusaders trying to stamp out all venereal disease, gonorrhea presents some special problems. It is twice as prevalent as syphilis in the U.S., with about 250,000 cases reported annually and an estimated 1,250,000 unreported. It is much more highly contagious than syphilis, and easier to catch from a single indiscretion...
...consider the relation of the seminars to that program." The obvious step for the Doty Committee is simply to extend Gen. Ed. credit to seminars in addition to the few in the social sciences which already have it. It should be clear now that such a step would prove fatal to any program which conceives General Education as something more than academic dilettantism...
...cries of mantic possession, but gradually clarify to explicit prophecy, yet all opaque to the listeners ... The Queen reappears to order her indoors. Cassandra stands still, rapt and benumbed, in her chariot where she has been left when the King, quiting his, has walked into his palace on that fatal Purple Carpet, very symbol of mortals trampling on that which belongs to the gods only. "I can't stand here wrangling with a slave," says Klytemnestra, and goes back into the palace where she has more urgent work in hand...