Word: fatalism
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...heads of the sticks are fitted with eyes that appear to be jequirity beans, are deadly poisonous. The Cincinnati testers fed one of the eyes to a rat, which promptly died. The U.S. PHS warned that if a small child eats one of the beans, serious and perhaps fatal illness may follow...
...fatal accidents in metropolitan Boston and Cambridge will come under close scrutiny by a fourteen-member in-vestigating team, which will be headed by Alfred L. Mosely, research psychologist, and Dr. Richard Ford '36, chairman of the Department of Legal Medicine...
...psychologist, a traffic engineer, an automotive engineer, and a mechanic, alerted by radio, will be sent immediately to the scene of fatal crashes. At the same time a physician will be sent to the hospital to interview and examine the driver involved if possible, or to arrange for a special autopsy, which will search for causes for the fatalities which would not be readily apparent...
...fifteen of Manolete. The Death of Manolete is another Spanish Horatio Alger story. The only road to fame and wealth open to a poor Spanish boy as everyone knows by now is the bullring. The whole story, from dodging calves with a wooden sword to the inevitable fatal goring is told through old photographs of varying tones and textures, accompanied by a vaguely familiar soundtrack of bullfight music and roaring crowds...
...fated by a small, icy crack in his being. The reader is forced to look backward over the story and to revise-what seemed love is suddenly revealed as the very inability to love, what seemed a wise or manly action toward a friend is seen as the fatal inability really to be close to anyone. Eaton achieves futility and failure in his middle years as others by hard work and determination achieve success. In a memorable finale, Alfred Eaton, the poor little rich boy of 50, is pictured killing time at the fashionable New York clubs, compulsively seeking...