Word: fatalism
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...naval officer, navigator and amateur astronomer, customarily kept his Yorkshire temper and sizzling vocabulary in check. But, as revealed by his journals and the accounts of his crew, he emerges as something less than the wise and civilized commander painted by Blunden's countryman Alan Moorehead in The Fatal Impact (TIME, April 8, 1966). More Bligh than blithe, even on festive occasions Cook had a provincial prudishness about prurient talk, though he showed a fondness for admiring native women through his telescope. He insisted that his men wash, but he forbade them to pray (especially when the ship...
Many people make mistakes when a complex production such as this one goes wrong. In Dear World's case, high among the guilty is producer Alexander Cohen, who has hired all the people who make the fatal errors. While Cohen has gone with talented men who hold some of the best track-records in the business, he has hired them for the wrong show...
...early campaign strategy gave ample reason for optimism. Determined to shuck his loser's image, he entered six primaries, won them all- frightening off Michigan's Governor George Romney before the balloting even began in New Hampshire, and forcing New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller into fatal blunders of indecision. California's Governor Ronald Reagan was never a real threat; besides, after the 1964 Goldwater disaster, the G.O.P.'s centrist and progressive wings wanted nothing more to do with the chimeras of the right. Nixon won almost effortlessly in Miami Beach, and without tearing...
...charting his campaign, Nixon never lost sight of the fatal flaws that marred his 1960 contest with John F. Kennedy. As he wrote in Six Crises: "I spent too much time in the last campaign on substance and too little time on appearance. I paid too much attention to what I was going to say, and too little to how I would look." Slightly cynical, perhaps, but by reversing the emphasis, Nixon did, after all, manage...
...Becker said that Nixon is too unpopular in the state to be a threat to Wallace's constituency. According to a spring poll conducted by Becker, 48 per cent of Massachusetts voters have an unfavorable opinion of Nixon. Pollsters consider any negative rating over 25 per cent a fatal omen for a state-wide candidate...