Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Passivity is fatal to us" Mao Tse-tung has written. "Our goal is to make the enemy passive...
...could "create my music only to my texts" because "both text and music in an unprecedented sense are based ... on the German language and the German spirit." Until the day in 1883 when he slumped over his desk in Venice, stricken with a fatal heart attack, he believed in himself as "the most German of the Germans...
Eventually the machine will be run 24 hours a day, seven days a week. "We can't operate too quickly to bring this fatal disease under control," commented Stare...
...capture of Seoul and the consequent collapse of the North Korean army. In North Korea, he tried what he called a "massive compression envelopment" against greatly superior forces. He undoubtedly underestimated the size and the quality of the Chinese troops. Their lack of tanks, artillery and transport looked like fatal weakness to exponents of current U.S. military doctrines. Specifically, MacArthur overestimated the effect of his air power on the Chinese troops...
Speaking from the sociologist's view-point, George G. Homans '32, associate professor of Sociology, indicated that too many sociologists are trying to make practical application and are neglecting broad research into human behavior. The urge to get immediate results may be "fatal" to the accumulation of knowledge, he warned...