Word: fatal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tragedy of men hopelessly trapped-thanks largely to the fact that the U.S. Army didn't bother to parachute them their long-promised heavy machine guns. TIME-LIFE Correspondent Wertenbaker's handling of these and other military passages indicates that experience as a journalist is not always fatal to creative writing...
...continuity--usually hampered when a foreign picture is cut for export--is good. Minor sketches of a fortune-telling gypsy and a one-eyed bandit are among the picture's high-spots, but the high-spots are few. The bitter revenge that motivated Merimee's unhappy soldier, and his fatal attachment for Carmen, are hinted at here but never realistically portrayed, and thus to main thread of the plot is expressed more by subtle implication than by forceful story-telling. But judging from the advertisements, subtle implications are what the public wants, and whether Boston likes it or not, that...
...genius of Palmiro Togliatti, the most successful Communist outside Russia, perhaps the greatest Communist since Lenin. And part of it lay in Western civilization's failure-in & out of Italy-to live up to its faith in itself and its God. This sickness of a civilization, not necessarily fatal, had definite symptoms that could be observed and recorded. If the West did not observe, record and act upon the evidence, the West would be deader than Rienzi...
Final problem: Was this gene a "dominant" or a "recessive?" To find out, Dr. Hall mated brown mice with black mice. When their hybrid offspring were tried in the tub, nearly all died in convulsions at the sound of the fatal bell. This proved (according to Mendel's law of heredity) that the jittery gene was dominant. A recessive gene would not have expressed itself until the next generation...
...Jesus Christ is a real political opponent of National Socialism," he declared, "because He is living today. It was a fatal error on the part of Hitler that he did not realize that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead...