Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assess the state of the union, describe Ford's entrance and Nixon's exit, introduce the new President, his family and his team, recall Richard Nixon's extraordinary rise and fall, witness the agony of his family, assess his legal future. We also recapitulate the long, fatal Watergate misadventure that felled him, attempt to evoke the mood of the nation, and hear from various commentators about what last week's tragic yet hopeful developments mean to the U.S. and where the country moves from there. The consensus seems to be that democracy and the American constitutional...
...group, was wounded, but apparently not seriously. The two women, Elizabeth Beseda, 57, a prison school teacher, and Judy Standley, 43, a librarian, were killed. The two women had volunteered to accompany the convicts as hostages in the armored car-a sacrificial offer that had placed them in that fatal inner circle beside the desperate...
...semi-professional production of Death that opened Wednesday night at the Tufts Arena Theater is not without its moments of illumination. Unfortunately, the two principals playing Willy and his wife Linda are very weak. And in a play which pivots so strongly on those two figures, the weakness is fatal. Neither Norman Goodman as Willy nor Jan Lewis as Linda seem to have crawled inside their characters to think through the indisputable logic which leads those characters to say one thing rather than another at any point. They seem to focus their eyes always on the wrong thing--which...
...same ailment that President Nixon suffered from during his Middle East trip. An inflammation of a vein, it can be fatal if a blood clot breaks loose and travels to the lungs or brain...
Until recently, all doctors could do in most of these cases was to try to slow the cancer's fatal course with chemotherapy. Now a new-though risky -way of using an old drug called methotrexate is improving the outlook for victims of osteogenic sarcoma...