Word: dead
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...TIME, Aug. 2). G.B.S., who has claimed to be an atheist, an anti-Darwinian (see BOOKS), a "creative evolutionist" and a vegetarian, "refrained from comment" in 212 words. Sample: "The founder of Christianity was a Communist with eleven faithful apostles, chief of whom* struck a man and his wife dead for keeping back their money from a common pool instead of sharing it. But American legislators, ostensibly Christians, don't read the Bible, much less Karl Marx. They would charge Saint Peter with sedition as well as murder if he were not beyond their reach...
Macbeth (Mercury Production; Republic), as Actor-Director Orson Welles tells it in this movie, is not quite the great tragedy of a noble man gone wrong; it is more the story of a dead-end kid on the make. Like an energetic small boy tinkering with an alarm clock, Orson breaks down the drama into bits and pieces-and cannot seem to fit it together again. Nonetheless, it is an interesting, unconventional...
...surprising that the question of a war memorial should have come to the present issue as between a simple but dignified recording of the names of the dead in the Memorial Church and a building in which a similar record would he associated with some daily use by the student body. There are obvious alternatives on the merits of which there is a natural difference of opinion...
...much to be said for a memorial that is associated with the daily life of the University. But the strongest argument for it is not its mere utility but rather the fact that its location would tend to make it a daily reminder of the debt owed to the dead by succeeding generations. As a utility an activities center might not rate as high a priority as would some other urgent needs of the University. Moreover, emphasis on utility might suggest that the emotions inspired by the desire for a memorial were being exploited as the easiest way of raising...
...this has led me, for one, to accept the judgment of the committee on the War Memorial as best calculated to ensure an impressive token of our reverence for the dead. If I have spoken of the possibility of exploiting that emotion as an easy way of raising money, I have not meant to impugn the motives of those who advocate an activities center. But it would be only natural if the intensity of their desire for a monument that would undoubtedly enrich the life of the student body should obscure the considerations I have mentioned as endangering the permanence...