Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only on the subject of Nixon does Magruder offer a sustained, considered judgment: "Without question, Nixon had the potential to be the greatest conservative political leader of his time; he knew his goals and he had the skills required to achieve them. Yet he had a fatal flaw too, an inability to tolerate criticism, an instinct to overreact in political combat. I don't know which came first, the liberals' loathing of Nixon or Nixon's loathing of the liberals, but the passions fed on one another, grew more and more bitter, until once he achieved...
Whatever the substance of his reforms, Giscard has already made it apparent that he will bring an open new style to the Elysée. It will contrast sharply with the Olympian manner patented by De Gaulle and copied, with minor modifications, by Georges Pompidou right up through the fatal end of his never-acknowledged struggle with cancer eight weeks ago. On election night, Giscard not only pointedly offered "a very cordial salute" to Mitterrand but did so in English as well as French-a cultural heresy that raised eyebrows even on the political left. Said former Premier Pierre Mendes...
...March 4, 1973, Maurice and Maralyn Bailey had their breakfast interrupted by sperm whale, which rammed their twin-keel sloop Auralyn about 250 miles northeast of the Galapagos Islands. The boat suffered a fatal portside hole below the waterline. Within an hour, the couple-who had been on their way from native England to New Zealand-embarked on a spectacular survival adventure in a round, covered rubber raft roped to a nine-foot dinghy. The publisher claims that the Baileys set a record-117 days*-for time adrift following a shipwreck. Though each lost about 40 pounds, suffered vitamin deficiencies...
Thousands of truckers each year drop in for services that begin with a safety lecture, often featuring state highway patrol movies of bloody and fatal accidents. The films serve a dual purpose: a caution against careless driving and a reminder of impending eternity. At a truck terminal in Dallas, Chaplain Mahlon Martin followed a film by giving the assembled drivers a typical Transport for Christ pitch: "People who say that one of these days they'll get it straightened out with the Lord might find that tomorrow is too late." Besides regular services, the two-man chapel crews also...
...functioning of its own Constitution." The Republican leaders doubtless also had in mind the possibility that Nixon could be acquitted. White House Speechwriter Patrick Buchanan warned that if Republicans forced Nixon out of office and he were later found to be innocent of wrongdoing, it "would be close to fatal for the Republican Party...