Word: fatalism
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...Aside from Muskie's numerous advantages-including national recognition and a mid-party stance-there are other problems for the shy-looking plainsman. What his admirers regard as a pleasing, low-key image comes across to others as a lack of dynamism and popular appeal that could be fatal. His showing in polls last year was poor. A move by Ted Kennedy would probably eclipse him. Then there are the other Senate prospects: Humphrey, Birch Bayh, Henry Jackson and Harold Hughes, who form a secondary line of potential competition. Nonetheless, vows McGovern: "I'm not going to drop...
There are certain psychic risks, of course, to a life led beneath the surface of domestic bliss. In the darkest Amazon, when a poison arrow proves nearly fatal, Margaret finds herself praying, "Paul, my darling, if I make it home to you ... I will learn to bake bread and make chocolate mousse." Here the most committed housewife asleep in her phoenix dreams will recognize that she and Margaret are soul mates. Few crises cannot be better met if the house is filled with the aroma of freshly baked bread. In the end, Margaret affirms the reality of her existence...
...Comstock and his colleagues made an incidental but fascinating discovery. Regular churchgoing, and the clean living that often goes with it, appear to help people avoid a whole bagful of dire ailments and disasters. Among them: heart disease, cirrhosis of the liver, tuberculosis, cancer of the cervix, chronic bronchitis, fatal one-car accidents and suicides...
...both the prosecution and the defense said that MacDonald seemed entirely normal; the defense psychiatrist added that MacDonald appeared incapable of committing so atrocious a trio of murders. Also, five of six doctors who testified said that at least one of MacDonald's wounds could easily have been fatal and that not even a physician could have inflicted it on himself safely...
...facts in this case are unique in American jurisprudence," said the Illinois Supreme Court. Donald Lang, 25, was charged with the fatal stabbing and beating of a woman friend. Lang cannot hear, speak, read or write. Nor does he understand sign language. For those reasons, Lang seemed clearly incompetent to stand trial. The question: should the state nonetheless...