Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under glaring floodlights one chill night last week, three warders of London's Pentonville prison opened the grave of a hanged man. At midnight they reached the quicklimed corpse of Sir Roger Casement,* wrapped it in sacking, and placed it gently in a wooden coffin. Before his 1916 execution as a traitor, Casement's last request was: "When they have done with me, don't let my bones lie in this dreadful place. Take me back to Ireland and let me lie there." In a long-delayed but gracious gesture, Prime Minister Harold Wilson granted Casement...
...morality is a healthy advance, as a genuine effort to take literally St. Paul's teachings that through Christ "we are delivered from the law." "Lists of cans and cannots are meaningless," said Princeton's Paul Ramsey. Yale's Protestant chaplain, the Rev. William Sloane Coffin, similarly approved the new morality's concept of "guideposts" rather than "hitching posts," although he thought that the church would have to be restructured to accept it as a way of life...
...Coffin also criticized the academic world as "sterile and routinized"--one where "we talk of problem but don't live with them...
...Coffin also noted that some college students use sex to find a meaningful relationship and a sense of intimacy. Not only do they not find this, he said, but they become even more lonely than before...
...meaningless sex lives are only symptoms of a sick culture, Coffin added. We try to lose our loneliness and boredom in sex because our superficial culture "distracts and pulls us apart more than it gives us meaning," he explained...