Word: fatalism
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...best Mischa Elman tradition. For my money, the finest undergraduate violinist here in at least ten years; has the stuff of which great fiddlers are made. Jonathan Thackeray his partner at the piano. Formidable technique, but tended to play too loud. Main trouble: his playing lacked poetry--fatal for his solo number, the Chopin F-Minor Ballade...
...Equally, it would be fatal for NATO now to relax and let apathy overtake what has been achieved." Nevertheless, in the long run, "our main theme of salvation should be the Grand Alliance of the European powers, linked with Canada and the U.S. The spirit of this arrangement should not exclude Russia and the Eastern European states. It may well be that the great issues which perplex us could then be solved more easily than they can by rival blocs confronting each other with suspicion and hostility. That is for the future...
...apparently fatal snag tripped up the Student Council's plan to finance its German Exchange Scholarship by selling bargain baseball tickets...
...though in poor condition) after bailing out above the speed of sound (TIME, Nov. 21), but according to experts of the Office of Naval Research, no ejection-seat and parachute combination can save a pilot flying more than 1,900 m.p.h. at 70,000 ft. Less speed would be fatal at lower altitudes, because the thicker air would hit the pilot with a harder decelerating jolt...
...blockage in the arteries feeding its muscle (coronary thrombosis or myocardial infarction). Bertram Sommerfield, 49, a Houston businessman, had a heart attack three months ago. One of its incidental effects was to tear a gaping hole in the septum between the ventricles. In adults, this usually is quickly fatal...