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The irony is that Soutine seems to have viewed the arrival of the Nazis, at least initially, with a certain equanimity, more cheerful than fatalistic.
) Sprawled on a motel sofa, fielding awestruck questions from a couple of junior FBI agents, Pistone expounds on the meaning of the phrase "Fuh-get about it" (which, depending on one's inflection, can signal fatalistic acceptance, doomed resignation, murderous rage, enthusiastic agreement, or nothing in particular) in a speech that will live long in the hearts of gangster-movie mavens.
My closing comment referred to current research that attempts to show that homosexuality is gene-related, which I termed “fatalistic” because it would appear to relieve any individual of responsibility for his actions: as we learn from frequent press reports, defense attorneys are seeking exoneration for their clients on the grounds that although they committed the crime in question, it was circumstances--abuse when they were children is quite popular--that were responsible for their actions, and they should be let off.
While this teaching has served to sustain the rigid hierarchy of the caste system, it is not so “fatalistic” as some would have it.
That being the case, maybe, like the fatalistic protagonist of the 1908 operetta Algeria , we should light up one last time:
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