Word: fatalistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More philosophically, Church is somewhat of a fatalist. He contends that the U.S. must face up to the fact that it has limited power to prevent changes in Iran or elsewhere. "This is a volatile world," he says. "The thing we must learn is that the U.S. can live with a great deal of change and upheaval. But the one thing we can't do is to stabilize it. There...
...nature, Mike Bakalis appears to be a fatalist. On a bumpy flight between Peoria and Bloomington, Ill., he admitted that he would fly in almost any weather. "When your time comes to go down, then you go down," he explained. With similar stoicism, he has learned to cope with political buffeting. Asked where he stands in the political spectrum, he replied without hesitation, "Right of center" ? words that would not have been uttered by a leading Democrat in a big industrial state a few years...
Powell is a fatalist who knows that hard knocks are never very far away. "To expect the worst is not to be disappointed," he says. Considering himself close to his peak of popularity, he intends to "make the downhill slide as slow as possible." In a speech at the National Press Club last month, he tried to put out some brushfires before they flare up. "What happens at the White House," he said, "is not always as serious as we think it is. We need to relax a little bit, all of us, and get a sense of perspective about...
...best, when he's describing his first forage outside his home town in the Old Country ("A Tutor in the Village"); or telling about the nicknames given to people in Polish villages, names like Haim Bellybutton, Yekel Cake, Sarah Gossip, Gittel Duck and--for a sinister Calvinist-type--Benjamin Fatalist ("The Fatalist"); or describing holiday revels ("Passions...
...logged diaries kept during the trip, plus photographs, maps and useful illustrations. Just this capacity for even-keeled privacy seems to have pulled them through. "In some weird and detached way," Maralyn concludes, "we found peace in our complete and compulsory isolation." Mrs. Bailey admits that she is a fatalist. She also cannot swim. · R.Z. Sheppard