Word: fatalism
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...played there. So many performers must take the stand during a given Festival concert that none of them gets a chance to play for more than an hour; some have less than thirty minutes. For a musician who is a slow starter, a tiny time segment can be fatal. Even groups which swing from the moment they start to play need time to establish their own mood. The size of the crowd precludes any real give-and-take between audience and artist beyond the mass-meeting variety...
...disease is as old as the pharaohs -telltale traces remain in mummies 3,000 years old-but to the dismay of public health doctors, it is more prevalent than ever. Schistosomiasis, bilharziasis, snail fever-by whatever name, the debilitating and often fatal illness afflicts more than 150 million people in Africa, Latin America and Asia. The disease is almost unknown in the U.S.; the few scattered cases brought into the country each year by visitors and immigrants fail to spread, create no public problem...
...BORIC ACID, once a favorite remedy for minor irritations such as diaper rash and prickly heat, can be fatal. Most insidious are the cases in which frequent application allows boric acid to be absorbed into the body through broken or irritated skin or through mucous membranes. Since the body is slow to eliminate the chemical, it accumulates in the liver and kidneys; in infants it sometimes causes nausea, convulsions and death. For years pediatricians have been wary of boric acid. Now a research team at St. John's University College of Pharmacy in New York City has developed...
...time Macmillan finished, the House was prepared to acquit him of personal dishonesty and moral turpitude, but he had convicted himself of negligence and naivete-or perhaps simply of a fatal ability to avert his eyes from what he did not wish to see. In the vote following the debate, 27 Conservatives voted against Macmillan or abstained. On all sides there were cries of "Resign, resign," and this is what Macmillan will almost certainly have to do-the only remaining question being when...
This is disastrous talk. The kind of committee approval and lukewarm acceptability required by federal grants would surely be fatal to jazz; it would force jazzmen to go to work for squares. Gone would be the blue lights and the old naughtiness. George F. Babbitt would be right there, tapping his foot...