Word: fatalism
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...assess the state of the union, describe Ford's entrance and Nixon's exit, introduce the new President, his family and his team, recall Richard Nixon's extraordinary rise and fall, witness the agony of his family, assess his legal future. We also recapitulate the long, fatal Watergate misadventure that felled him, attempt to evoke the mood of the nation, and hear from various commentators about what last week's tragic yet hopeful developments mean to the U.S. and where the country moves from there. The consensus seems to be that democracy and the American constitutional...
...people in a last-ditch television appeal, thought about it, then rejected his own idea. As so often in the Watergate saga, his perception was poor, almost disconnected from reality: he was not at all certain that the effect of the newest tape disclosure would be that fatal. He ordered his aides to draft a statement to accompany the release of the transcripts. He would take his chances with the result. Price moved into an unoccupied cabin and began drafting the President's explanation. St. Clair insisted on a paragraph making it clear that he had been unaware...
...group, was wounded, but apparently not seriously. The two women, Elizabeth Beseda, 57, a prison school teacher, and Judy Standley, 43, a librarian, were killed. The two women had volunteered to accompany the convicts as hostages in the armored car-a sacrificial offer that had placed them in that fatal inner circle beside the desperate...
...semi-professional production of Death that opened Wednesday night at the Tufts Arena Theater is not without its moments of illumination. Unfortunately, the two principals playing Willy and his wife Linda are very weak. And in a play which pivots so strongly on those two figures, the weakness is fatal. Neither Norman Goodman as Willy nor Jan Lewis as Linda seem to have crawled inside their characters to think through the indisputable logic which leads those characters to say one thing rather than another at any point. They seem to focus their eyes always on the wrong thing--which...
...same ailment that President Nixon suffered from during his Middle East trip. An inflammation of a vein, it can be fatal if a blood clot breaks loose and travels to the lungs or brain...