Word: fatalism
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...HERO cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world," /V observed Nathaniel Hawthorne, who thought even in 1850 that America's world had turned unheroic. Thomas Carlyle felt that "Ballot-boxes and Electoral suffrages" might prove a fatal threat to heroes. Americans today find heroism daily in Viet Nam and high courage in a thousand situations, from space to civil rights. And yet there is a widespread feeling that the leap of imagination that makes heroes and the generosity of spirit that acknowledges them are disappearing. Can there be real heroes in a time of the computer...
...territory of some species expands because each male maintains a domain that no other male is permitted to invade. Aggression, on the other hand, is a force more carefully controlled in most animals than it is in man. Members of two different animal species frequently fight to a fatal finish; members of the same species seldom go so far. At the last minute, the animal getting the worst of it makes a gesture of submission and the victor, no matter how furious his rage, is compelled by the gesture to spare the victim's life...
...party pattern that pervades Africa these days, Major General Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi, Nigeria's strongman since last January's bloody coup that toppled Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, announced on television last week that the job of curing his country's "fatal maladies of the past" will take no less than three years...
Penicillin Deaths. After going through the catalogue of drugs that cause severe or fatal breakdowns in the blood-forming mechanism, Dr. Moser reminded his audience that one of the worst drug offenders of all remains one of the most valuable lifesavers available: penicillin. It is known to set off an infinite variety of allergic or "serum sickness" reactions, and causes up to 300 U.S. deaths a year. Even the mildest of drug-induced difficulties, he added, should not be minimized, for the side effects are not limited to one generation. If a woman has certain radiopaque dyes injected for gall...
...average: $28,380), he has lately been dislodged from his old status as the grand panjandrum. In the bestselling Intern, the mysterious Dr. X-who well knew the necessity of shielding himself from his colleagues' vengeance-admitted that doctors learn only by committing "colossal blunders" that sometimes prove fatal. The profession's official and aggressive opposition to medicare marred the doctor's image among many Americans-and raised bothersome questions about how the profession will treat the huge influx of new patients, all of them old people who particularly need human comfort. While most patients profess esteem...