Word: fatalism
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When the time to go did come, though, Margaret Mead was ready. When she learned last year that she had a generally fatal form of cancer, she refused to let it slow her down. Instead, the scientist who had spent a lifetime observing others turned her still keen powers of observation on herself, and continued to keep her thorough records on her own process of aging. Her attention was appropriate. Of all the people she studied, few were as interesting as Margaret Mead herself...
Together they soared skyward, one hoping to deal the fatal blow, the other gasping for just another breath...
Silberman goes on to puncture the rightist dogma of severe punishment and electrocution enthusiasm. Certainty of punishment, not severity, deters crime; overcrowded, bestially violent American prisons pile punishment on to no recognizable end, and the animals they create of men make prison government impossible. "The fatal flaw in the traditional approach to prison government," Silberman writes, "is that by expecting the worst, it succeeds in bringing out the worst." Prison government might proceed more efficiently and humanely, indeed more constitutionally, by treating inmates like citizens in a community...
...D.F.L. might have survived its own overambition. Though Anderson made little impact in the Senate, Humphrey wisely decided not to seek a full Senate term this year, and the colorful Perpich began emerging as an able Governor. But without Hubert's healing hand the party fell into a fatal primary fight. Robert Short, a millionaire businessman-sportsman (truck-firm operator, former owner of the Minneapolis-now Los Angeles-Lakers and the Washington Senators), challenged a Humphrey protégé, liberal Congressman Don Fraser, for the nomination to Humphrey's seat and won the primary in an upset...
...directors and, defying all the usual rules of film making, he has turned out some of the most delightful movies of the past decade: My Night at Maud's, Claire's Knee, Chloe in the Afternoon and The Marquise of O... In Perceval he goes one fatal step further; it is not merely an intellectual movie. It is the essence of an intellectual movie and boring beyond all reasonable accounting...