Word: fatalism
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...inexplicable wrestling match between two men . . . Don't worry about the reasons for this fight but make yourself share in the human stakes." The advice is well-taken, because the reasons for the struggle seem decidedly artificial from the start. Shlink a Chinese timber dealer, purposely provokes a fatal quarrel with George Garga, an employee in a moth-eaten lending library. When Garga refuses to sell his opinion of a book to Shlink and his three thugs, the Chinaman concludes that he is a man of spirit an man worthy of his enmity. Garga takes up the challenge to combat...
...that while anthropomorphic images are a concession to our weakness, the abstractions are the literal truth. Both are equally concessions; each singly misleading, and the two together mutually corrective. Unless you sit to it very tightly, continually murmuring "Not thus, not thus, neither is this Thou," the abstraction is fatal. It will make the life of lives inanimate and the love of loves impersonal. The naif image is mischievous chiefly in so far as it holds unbelievers back from conversions. It does believers, even at its crudest, no harm. What soul ever perished for believing that God the Father really...
...that they could prescribe anti-rejection drugs not only in the right amount but at the right time. Such timing is vitally important. It is dangerous to suppress the rejection mechanism completely, even after a transplant, because to do so leaves the patient defenseless against many potentially fatal infections...
...with brevity and considerable wit. He has a fine comic flair for translating the mechanized absurdities of big-city life into visions of surrealist fantasy. But in the last chapters of You're a Big Boy Now, his story loses its fine farcical edge, and he makes the fatal mistake of taking his hero seriously. He would have done well to keep in mind a famous aphorism observed by Evelyn Waugh: "Never apologize. Never explain...
...Chicago (463,516 pupils), which had a huge boycott last fall, a smaller one-day walkout this time faced seem ingly fatal opposition from Negro politicians and the Urban League. Nonetheless, boycott leaders mustered 126,350 pupils (beyond normal absences of 46,000). The numerical success suggested that Chicago's political leaders cannot much longer ignore the issue...