Word: fatalism
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...unique situation of the Afro-American Studies Department warrants the special attention of the entire Harvard community. I have before witnessed similar situations where benign neglect has proven fatal to the entity in question...
Alas, she is pregnant by the dead writer. This Tullio's fatal male honor cannot stand, and when a son is born to Giuliana he exposes the baby to cold winter air and allows him to die. Then, after a moody conversation with his mistress, he shoots himself through the heart. Teresa, dressed appropriately in a black gown-though no one was dead when she put it on-walks unsympathetically past his body and away from the camera. She stops motionless in the middle distance, an elegant figure on a path framed by trees, as the credits roll...
...conclusions King draws from the statistics he has presented as a rationale for raising the age--that the number of drivers under 21 involved in fatal highway accidents since 1972 has skyrocketed nearly 100 per cent--are questionable at best and are likely too partisan to represent accurately the true incidence of teenage drunk drivers. State Sen. John Owen presented figures in a hearing last Tuesday that showed that drunk driving had increased more in the 21-25 age group than in the 18-21 bracket...
...TRAGIC END of the late Sid Vicious could not have come at a worse time for the Ramones. In his inimitable fashion, Vicious, ever the loser, managed with his fatal taste for smack and violence to sour promoters around the country on anything that smells remotely like punk...
There is one fatal flaw in Red China's "liberalization." As in other dictatorships, the new freedoms are not rights guaranteed by effective laws but rather privileges given at the whim of a dictator that can be taken away at the whim of the same or some future dictator...