Word: fatalism
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...Captain Proctor, who swore that he and the district attorney had framed a question to deceive the jury, the committee says the jury "must have understood the plain English words." This is discernibly false. Not only did the judge instruct the jury that Proctor's testimony meant that "the fatal Winchester bullet . . . was fired through the barrel of the Colt Automatic pistol found upon the defendant Sacco at the time of his arrest." The newspapers of the day also failed to understand "the plain English words." "EXPERTS PICK MURDER PISTOL; Declare Bullet from Sacco's Gun Caused Death of Berardelli...
...Nielsen TV families constitute approximately one rating point, and the loss of a point can be fatal. One producer testified that had he been able to get eleven more homes, one of his TV shows would not have been canceled...
...Irish famine does not come under the head of genocide, as British Historian A.J.P. Taylor provocatively has put it. The gas ovens of Auschwitz were the weapons of a deliberate crime. The Irish tragedy was a more confused thing, in which ignorant good will was not the least fatal element. But it is hardly surprising that the Irish blamed the British and that 1,000,000 Irish who somehow managed to escape to Canada, the U.S., England or Australia carried with them as their only inalienable possession-hatred. Only the statute of limitations, which rules the reading of history...
...Czar's torment is terrible-but is it madness or fatal grief? He lives out his last days in the hollow splendor of his Russian palace, haunted by the child king he has murdered, as frightened of his own evil as of the false pretender who is coming through the winter forests to kill him. At last he dies, and in dying Boris Godunov demands an all-but-impossible mystic triumph of the bassos who sing his tragic role: his final prayer must be torn from a soul already lost, from lips already dead. Yet in the last...
...Pierre admire the murderer for the reckless fury of his act ("We could have arranged a good life for him," says Maria, "and perhaps I would have loved him"), but he lies dead in a field. Maria and Pierre want to love one another, but their torpor is as fatal to love as the murderer's angry bullet. At the hotel in Madrid, Maria lies wrapped in "the odor of their dying love," listening to the sounds from the adjoining room as Claire prepares to receive Pierre in a love equally doomed to dissolution...