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Robert P. Bauchwitz '82, David C. Jabon '82, Ari M. Lieman '82, and A. Michael Ruderman '81-4 defeated 23 teams, each composed of four undergraduates, in a preliminary competition at Lamont Library Saturday, and then bested five finalist teams for the school championship...
...backyard, Jackie Onassis was stung by the publication of her "Dearest Ros" letter to Roswell Gilpatric, which was said to have driven Ari to Callas behavior. Billie Jean King's recent revelations were due less to a spasm of candor than to more than 100 letters she wrote her secretary. So it goes, from post to pillory. Lee Marvin made legal history a few years back when he lost a "palimony" suit to Michelle Triola Marvin. One of his letters to Michelle closed: "Hey baby, hey baby, hey baby, hey baby, hey baby, hey baby." It proved that...
Death, Philippe Ariès ∙Lucy...
This sentimental optimism in what Ariès calls "the death of the other" hardened into "the invisible death." The end of life is treated as an obscenity; physicians prevaricate with fatally ill patients; the afflicted die alone, plugged into the engines of Hygeia; emotional and public grieving is thought to be in bad taste...
...heavy silence has fallen over the subject," concludes Ariès. "When this silence is broken, as it sometimes is in America today, it is to reduce death to the insignificance of an ordinary event that is mentioned with feigned indifference. Either way, the result is the same: neither the individual nor the community is strong enough to recognize the existence of death...