Word: fatalism
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After St. Louis's Wayne Maki belted Boston's Ted Green over the head with his stick. Higgins made Green a special helmet to protect him from a further head injury, which might prove fatal...
...Kahn says about the Dodger infielder will be familiar to former members of Happy Felton's Knothole Gang. There is Robinson, first Negro in the majors: the racial abuse he endured on and off the field, his testiness, the later tragedy of his son's delinquency and fatal car crash. What Kahn does is rekindle for a younger, less patient generation the pride of a remarkable athlete who wanted to be recognized and paid as such. That Robinson eventually be came a prosperous, overweight Republican has a perfect and glorious consistency...
Gaylin, who is also a professor of psychiatry and law at Columbia University, points out that if, unlike Smith, the wanted person has a medical condition that is possibly fatal, fear of being turned in could deter him from seeking a doctor's attention. "What if, in the next instance of this," asks Gaylin, "the alleged criminal has a heart condition...
Only the sergeant remains calm. He killed out of anger, and is perfectly willing to pay for it. But nothing is simple any more. Justice gets lost in a welter of lawyers' ambitions and personal problems, fatal misunderstandings, official deception and senseless violence. Anything resembling youthful idealism, compassion or hope either gets destroyed or freaks...
HOWEVER, IT IS UNDENIABLY CLEAR that Nixon is bluffing, hoping that he can finesse a return ticket to the White House. Completing a suit-by-suit survey of his political hand for '72, one is suddenly aware of the reason for the bluff. He has a fatal void in Spades...