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...came to feel that it didn't really matter very much, because whatever the future held you'd have to face it when you came to it, just as whatever life holds, you have to face it the same way ... I think I am pretty much a fatalist." However, a fatalist is not necessarily an agnostic, said Mrs. Roosevelt, in answering The Tidings: "I do believe in immortality, but I haven't been able to decide exactly what form it might take. There are so many possibilities. For example, there is a question in my mind whether...
...chain-reacting pile to work in Chicago in 1942. Last week he prescribed energy and vigilance as antidotes for panic: "American supremacy is predictable up to 20 years if we work hard. As for me, I expect to sleep as well as my insomnia permits. I'm a fatalist by nature, anyway...
...merits is its innovation of alternating technicolor and monochrome to depict earth and heaven. The latter is a highly fanciful creation, and the Hollywood-Bowlish representation of the High Court of Judgment stretches the imagination almost beyond the bounds of good taste. But no one, whether atheist or fatalist, can fail to enjoy the high humor of the heavenly consternation when a "clerical error" results in the unscheduled prolongment of the doomed flier's life-on-earth...
...black-browed fatalist of 24, Capa has strung along with Leftist attacks lightly armed with a Leica. His wife, Photographer Gerda Taro, was crushed by a Leftist tank last year during the retreat from Brunete. Capa's work in Spain has made him one of the world's great photographers and last week's exhibition was his first in the U. S. It was also a nearly definitive collection of Capa's Spanish photographs. For after more than a year of pictorial reporting, interrupted only by a brief visit to the U. S. last autumn, Robert...
...world power, the first volume more readable as a connected narrative, the second more notable for its explicit records of events over which historians have speculated endlessly. A stoic, melancholy spirit, Caulaincourt was a strange combination himself, a blunt, hard-riding man of action who was also a fatalist and a philosopher, and who wrote with classic seventy...