Word: fatalism
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Cannonballs and antique china. The sword and uniform Robert E. Lee wore at Appomattox. Jeb Stuart's boots and the saddle on which he received his fatal wound at Yellow Tavern. Stonewall Jackson's cap. Three hundred battle flags. It was all there in the venerable "White House of the Confederacy"?the 158-year-old mansion where President Jefferson Davis lived at Richmond. Since the turn of the century, awed Southerners have walked through the hallowed building?along with curious Yankees. Together, they and the memorabilia helped to prolong the cliché of the South as a place where...
...when things "Gaelic" traditionally occur: "the middle of the night in the end of the house." Darkness, and the pigs and people lying in the rushes in the end of the house create the atmosphere of the novel throughout. The pigs, especially, make atmosphere; one chapter describes a near-fatal smothering of the O'Coonassa family due to the smell of the pigs, "and a certain Ambrose, in particular...
...Zagreb-a key sky junction of routes to Turkey, Greece and Mediterranean resorts-is one of Europe's busiest air corridors, and the Yugoslav pilot was unaware that the British Trident was already flying at that altitude. Zagreb's air controllers may well be responsible for this fatal error. The preliminary opinion of Vjeceslav Jakovac, the Yugoslav judge heading the investigation, was that the controllers probably had incorrectly assessed the altitude of the planes. Five of the controllers were taken into custody for questioning. If found guilty, they could face stiff penalties; in 1974, a Zagreb locomotive engineer...
...flesh and gold hair, is perversely liturgical-a parody (done, one should recall, for a public whose cultural background was still Catholic) of medieval head reliquaries. The image, however, is not a saint or a magdalen but that sibylline bitch of the fin-de-siècle imagination, the Fatal Woman, La Belle Dame sans Merci-enigmatic as a sphinx, cruelly indifferent as a Byzantine empress, wearing the features of the Divine Sarah and the aggressive glitter of a vintage Cadillac fender...
Denenberg is not merely a reporter; he sometimes adds action to excoriation. When he noticed that the antidote on the labels of all wood-alcohol products was medically unsound and possibly fatal, he filed a successful petition with the Consumer Product Safety Commission for new labeling regulations. Two weeks ago Denenberg petitioned the commission to order all U.S. poison labels-some 50,000-rewritten...