Word: fatalism
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...1950s, Thomas observed that "medicine was turning into a science." The discovery and use of a host of drugs such as sulfanilamide and antibiotics meant that many otherwise fatal diseases were easily curable. A new optimism swept through the profession; doctors became "convinced, overnight, that nothing lay beyond reach for the future. Medicine was off and running...
...Zimbabwe's Shona and Ndebele tribes, ignoring the other oppressed groups. As a member of a Zimbabwe minority tribe, I deplore the lack of dialogue between the people of my nation. Their refusal to accept religious, linguistic or racial diversity in others is a clear signal of a fatal future...
...know what it's like to be ugly and still feel beautiful." An angel-faced teen-age boy, whose ardor for Fascism amounts almost to sexual hysteria, is shot by some of the villagers he tried to kill; seeing this, his Fascist father flies into a fatal jitterbug of despair, burrowing his head into the hard earth. Cecilia, at six the youngest of the fleeing villagers, finds the ordeal a delicious, dangerous game, like hopscotching through a minefield...
...feminine-hygiene products). Furthermore, ABC agreed to cluster more commercials together, thus interrupting the drama less often. British Writer Jack Pulman, who wrote the BBC's I, Claudius and War and Peace, was hired to do the adaptation. After eleven months of research and planning, he suffered a fatal heart attack. Wouk was persuaded to undertake the script...
Meanwhile, network programmers are failing to produce any new blockbuster series. A mini-series like The Winds of War may earn ratings and prestige, but it has a fatal flaw as a piece of merchandise: it cannot be duplicated ad infinitum. The megabit series remains the most efficient kind of money machine, generating huge profits for the network in its initial run and even larger sums for the show's producer when it is later syndicated to local stations: All in the Family stands to bring in about $100 million in syndication fees. This season, Dynasty (Dallas in Denver...