Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the inquest continues this week, Kentridge is expected to attempt to show that Biko received his fatal head injury a full day before the alleged struggle with the police. Presumably he will also bear down on the fact that out of 28 affidavits sworn to by policemen and doctors, not one mentioned that Biko had knocked his head against a wall. Kentridge's implicit point: that the story was invented later by one or more of the participants to head off a possible murder charge...
...other contemporary American poet has written more urgently and directly about this fatal shunt than Anne Sexton. Her poems were torn from her life as a daughter, housewife, mother, lover, mental patient and custodian of what she called "the excitable gift." The phrase is from her poem "Live," from a collection that embraced such titles as "Wanting to Die," "Suicide Note" and "Sylvia's Death." Plath (1932-63) and Sexton (1928-74) were friends who spent hours discussing their art, illnesses and the ways they would kill themselves. Yet it is difficult to read Sexton's correspondence...
...critical right of Congress to exercise meaningful oversight of the nation's intelligence community has sustained a serious--albeit hardly fatal--blow in the wake of the administration's decision on Helms, and only a very tenuous silver lining could be discerned as the air cleared in Washington. As part of the bargain with Justice Department officials, Helms agreed to testify fully in any subsequent investigations pertaining to the entire CIA episode in Allende's Chile...
...senior member of the legislature and, until this fall, the owner of a public relations and advertising firm, Bateman is immeasurably more polished and effective than Byrne as a political personality. But he may have made a fatal mistake by basing his campaign on a promise to let the one-year-old state income tax expire next June. Bateman has argued that the 2% to 2.5% tax?which brings in about $1 billion a year?should be replaced by a legislative package that would include welfare reform, a selective job freeze and, if necessary, a "modest" increase in the state...
...Roosevelt's personality, the charismatic aura that captivated the hearts of millions of voters, the oratorical wizardry that soothed the fears of millions of unemployed workers, and the self-assured jocundity that enlivened the days of the few who knew him well. Still, Vaughn cannot escape the script's fatal flaws, only make them less noticeable...