Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Furthermore, although Muskie's crying incident is considered less disastrous in light of other actions by recent Presidents (besides, we can be reminded. Lincoln used to cry), another such blunder would be fatal, Still, as Goodwin pointed out, it's unlikely Muskie would commit the same mistakes the second time around. "He's probably learned something. He wouldn't cry this time. He could get by with some amphetamines in 1976 like Humphrey...
...with the rifle is situated. Lee Harvey Oswald, of course, supposedly shot President Kennedy from in back of him, out of a window in the Texas School Book Depository. The filmed evidence of the actual shooting, which certainly seems to make it questionable that Oswald fired the fatal shots, is old material. The man aiming the rifle at the car, just discovered, compounds the likelihood of Oswald's innocence, and challenges Warren Commission's claim to have conducted a serious investigation...
Freud's break with Jung is perhaps the greatest dispute in psychoanalysis but it certainly wasn't the most insane. Freud's power over his followers was frightening, even fatal, and his victims were not all ideas. His personal and scientific rejection of Victor Tausk helped drive him to a horribly deliberate suicide by both gun and rope and shortly after Freud wrote Herbert Silberer that "I no longer desire personal contact with you," because of a basically professional argument. Silberer hanged himself, dramatically leaving a flashlight in his face and a letter, to Freud, on his desk. The personalities...
Chou never made the fatal mistake of actively opposing Mao. When the Great Leap stumbled, it was Chou-not the Great Helmsman-who accepted the blame. During the hectic years of the Cultural Revolution, he went along to Red Guard rallies but when the situation became more unstable than even Mao had envisioned, Chou quietly saw to it that the nation's key scientists were not obstructed or development projects devastated by the rampaging Red Guards. At one point, Chou's own offices were besieged for two days by a mob of frenzied youths who described...
Isolated Incident. The Soviet action was a serious, though probably not fatal blow to detente. Both Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev and U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger have long stressed that the normalization of trade relations was a prerequisite for Soviet-American cooperation on such contentious issues as nuclear arms control and peace in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Last week, however, Kissinger presented the Soviet cancellation as an isolated incident in the general course of detente. He characterized Moscow's move as merely an "interruption"-not "a final break." Shortly thereafter, the official Soviet news agency...