Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bill Douglas had not given up easily. A toughened survivor of polio and a near drowning in childhood, plus an almost fatal riding accident and a weakened heart while on the court, he had been partly paralyzed by a stroke last New Year's Eve and was confined to a wheelchair. The lifelong liberal had hung on stubbornly. As Douglas told a friend only a few weeks ago: "I won't resign while there's a breath in my body -until we get a Democratic President...
...false sense of confidence may be fatal, warns Doty: "We now have a period of relative public confidence that nuclear war is not imminent. We are apt to lose the vision of how absolutely catastrophic nuclear war is." While there is no foolproof solution, the authors variously argue that the U.S. should greatly intensify its disarmament efforts, restrict its sales of nuclear reactors to unstable countries, and do its best to lift up poor societies...
...after an ill-conceived breakup. The tragedies in the book happen to others. A reclusive old relative of Frances' starves to death in a Midlands cottage; a nephew decides to leave the world he cannot take-and kills his infant daughter as well. Frances does not share this fatal pessimism. But she earnestly wants to know why she has been spared...
...proponents of the handgun ban claim it will reduce the availability of handguns and consequently reduce crime, murder, violence, suicide, and fatal accidents. John Buckley, Sheriff of Middlesex County and founder of People vs. Handguns, notes that 54 per cent of all murders are committed with handguns, 33 per cent of all robberies, and 25 per cent of all aggravated assaults. "The key to the issue," Buckley argues, "is that banning handguns will prevent crime before it occurs. If we want to make progress in the area of crime we've got to have prevention...
...opponents of the ban do not believe the facts support this position, arguing that the relatively small number of accidents does not provide a compelling reason to ban handguns. The National Safety Council reports that in 1973 less than .005 per cent of all handguns were involved in fatal accidents--in that year there were 2700 accidental firearm deaths in the U.S. or 1.3 per 100,000 persons with less than half of this from handguns. Former Lynn mayor Warren Cassidy of the Gun Owners Action League (GOAL) argues that this rate is no worse than for many other commonly...