Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other spy novel these might be fatal lapses. But Le Carre is not any other spy novelist. Throughout, he is aware not only of the moral squalor that can attend espionage - but also of Auden's ironic observation: "We are left alone with our day, and the tune is short and/ History to the defeated/ May say Alas but cannot help or pardon...
...Storm Troopers. The two flee but are subsequently captured. The Nazi goons begin beating Rudy viciously and order Max to do the same. He begins in utter dismay, recognizes what he has been degraded to, and in an orgy of self-loathing deals his lover the final fatal blow. To amuse themselves further, the guards then order Max to undergo an appalling sexual test. He passes. The guards thought, as he tells Horst, " 'He's a bit bent.' They said, 'He can't' ... but I did." For his reward, Max is permitted to wear...
Judge James P. McGuire of Suffolk Country Superior Court yesterday sentenced Leon J. Easterling to 18-20 years in the Massachusetts State Penitentiary at Walpole for the 1976 fatal stabbing of Andrew P. Puopolo...
...Fatal Shot...
...fell to the floor dead, apparently of a heart attack. Harry's demise was less unexpected; the New York stockbroker, 49, had been suffering from angina pectoris, periodic attacks of severe chest pain, for several months before he died in his sleep. In both cases, doctors assumed the fatal attacks had been triggered by blood clots or atherosclerotic plaques clogging the pencil-thin arteries that supply oxygen-rich blood to heart muscle. But autopsies showed that the coronary arteries of both victims were free of obstruction...