Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...present system is a scandal, perhaps the fatal flaw in American democracy," declares Los Angeles Fund Raiser Harold Willens. "It's the nastiest thing in all of politics, and it may destroy our whole political system," contends Missouri Judge George W. Lehr. "There's a smell, an odor about it, and unless things change the system cannot survive," insists Larry O'Brien, campaign manager for George McGovern. Says Senator Edward Kennedy: "It is the most flagrant single abuse in our democracy, the unconscionable power of money...
...face a solid defense, and it remains to be seen whether the unit will continue to click. The defense, while recording two shutouts, may be vulnerable against a high-scoring machine like Penn, and injuries to captain. Rick Scoot, Brian Fearnett, Ric LaCivita or Henry Sideropoulos could prove fatal. Goalie Steve Kidder is good, but whether he can come up with big saves is another moot point, and only time will tell. Without crippling injuries, this year's Crimson squad could go a long way. With injuries it could have problems finishing among the top three...
Like most countries, the U.S. has a weakness for panaceas, a fondness for recrimination after failure. But history and human nature dash many widely held hopes and apparently reasonable judgments. For a long time, Luce could not admit to himself Chiang's fatal weaknesses. Similarly, men who called Luce a fascist in the 1930s could not face the fact of Stalin's purges. Today liberals regard the American labor movement as warmongering, reactionary and materialist; 40 years ago, they assumed that the rise of strong unions would make egalitarian America awake and sing. The sense of One Worldly...
...Ching, J. Dempsey Huitt and George Nagao say that balloons that burst while being chewed or inflated can explode with such force that fragments of rubber may be propelled back into the mouth and windpipe, causing asphyxiation. The trio base their warning on a review of a score of fatal accidents plus their own observations of two other cases. One two-year-old boy who had been playing with a balloon was found unconscious; hospital personnel who managed to restore his breathing found the balloon in his glottis. A nine-month-old boy left in his crib with an inflated...
...from quiet critical successes into noisy exercises in film going chic. Most of the people who saw and admired My Night at Maud's several years back will probably see and admire La Salamandre. This is all very well, both films should be seen, but overpraise can be as fatal as underattendance. For as fully realized and as refreshing as is La Salamandre, it is not the original and important work advance notice would have us believe. It breaks no new stylistic ground, it raises no new thematic questions, it solves no old ones. All the best things...