Word: fatalism
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...time goes by, it will become increasingly evident that the real mystery concerns not the doings of the protagonists in Dallas during the fatal week, but the subsequent performance of the mystery makers themselves and the success of their campaign. One is tempted to ask the very question that they themselves raise about the murders in Dallas: are they to be explained as the result of some complex antecedent combination, or were they the work of obsessed, unbalanced men, each acting independently...
...Selznick's overall conception to the small details of costume and set decoration, Gone With the Wind has an innate grace, an elegance and dignity that has disappeared from movie-making. Even the rapid succession of disasters in the final 20 minutes--Scarlett's miscarriage, her daughter's fatal accident, Rhett's madness and Melanie's death--gains complete plausibility from the nuances of performnace and the stylistic subtlety of direction...
...three other girls had no cancer, but biliary atresia-a congenital absence of bile ducts. This behaves for all practical purposes like a malignancy, and usually proves fatal within 18 months. Since construction of a normal route for the bile was impossible in these cases, the Starzl team did transplants for Paula Kay Hansen, aged 2, of Fort Worth; Kerri Lynn Brown, 16 months, of Long Beach, Calif.; and Carol Lynne Macourt, 16 months, of Salt Lake City...
Brown's second game tier was inevitable. Harvard coach Bruce Munro had worried before the game about his team's tendency to give up corner kicks. Last week Princeton received 12 (and scored on one), and Munro knew a similar allowance to the more dangerous Bruins would be fatal...
...steer a course somewhere between despair and euphoria, to know its limits yet act decisively within them, to be conscious of the gradations of evil in the world without feeling compelled to try to eradicate them all. "A blind faith in total victory," he writes, "can be fatal because it assumes that evil exists in the world only by sufferance, that all it takes to destroy it is godlike power...