Word: fatalistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...When I Am King!" According to the King's devoted ranching neighbor, biographer and friend in Canada, Mr. Frazier Hunt, Edward VIII is a profound fatalist about his own life and personal affairs. As Prince of Wales, however, he would often vehemently say of his inheritance: "Things will be different when I am King!" Great problems of the Kingdom and the Empire to which Edward VIII has for years given his best thought are: 1) how to promote the sale of British goods; 2) how to combat unemployment; 3) how to minimize the clash of British classes...
Hymn No. 467 was written by that great U. S. statesman, John Hay. It begins: Not in dumb resignation we lift our hands on high; Not like the nerveless fatalist content to trust and die: Our faith springs like the eagle, which soars to meet the sun, And cries exulting unto thee, "O Lord, thy will be done...
...taught by Sam Baldwin of the late famed Baldwin Brothers who began barnstorming soon after the Civil War and had a "balloon farm" near Quincy, Ill. Father Clarence, who limps, boasts that he has at various times broken every bone in his body. Says he: I'm a fatalist. And I'm simply stuck on jumping." The Bonettes are believed to be the only hot-air balloonists now in the business...