Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grasp. The Americans from their hilltop positions control all the major corridors to the south. The North Vietnamese, says one high-ranking Marine officer, are "no better at running these damned hills than we are, and they don't know the country any better. Once they commit themselves en masse down one of these draws, we can bomb them and shell them night...
College psychiatrists report that the student suicide rate is about 50% higher than that for either the general population or nonstudents of college age. Men are more efficient-or serious-about suicide than women, succeed in killing themselves three times as often for each attempt. Proportionately more graduate students commit suicide than undergraduates. Barbiturates are by far the most common method, distantly trailed by shooting and jumping...
...those who commit or attempt suicide? At one large university, the son of a small-town pharmacist tried to become a physician, as his father had urged. But he flunked chemistry and vomited while dissecting a frog. He wrote a note saying that he had dishonored himself, then shot himself. A highly creative coed at a large Eastern private school scored high marks in some classes, dismal grades in others. She was a loner, obviously unhappy, and she jumped from the 14th floor of the campus library. In her room, authorities found a novel she had completed. Professors said that...
...FIXER, by Bernard Malamud. A severe moralist, Malamud pits a helpless man against guilty authority in this poignant account of a Jew condemned to die for a crime he did not commit...
There is really nothing for Rabbi Small to do except prove that the dead man did not commit suicide, but was murdered-and, for good measure, to go out and collar the murderer. Along the way, the rabbi unobtrusively offers a short course in Conservative Judaism, as well as some choice and not entirely flattering opinions about his fellow Jews. For example, Kernel-man explains why cantors like to call themselves by their diminutives: they are childishly vain...