Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SHOULD Harvard honor the men who died defending the Confederacy? Although the Harvard Corporation last year rejected a plan to add the names of the Confederate dead alumni to the inscriptions in Memorial Hall, some faculty members are still calling for the names to be inscribed. Many are confident that the wounds of the conflict have long been healed and must be put in perspective; this is the third request to add the Confederate names since Mem Hall was completed more than 100 years...
Faculty critics of the request argued that honoring those racist rebels would be a slap in the face to Blacks and to dead Union soldiers. For many, 123 years after Lee's surrender, the Civil War scars still remain. And maybe they should...
There is, therefore, no need to honor the Confederate dead. They've been honored already by their neighbors and friends. It would be a waste of marble to add their names in Memorial Hall...
...vandals also nailed a dead sparrow, beef tongue and sign, reading, "When will you people realize that your gods are dead?" to the Nativity scene, Gelinas said. The sign was created with anonymous news-paper letters and the word "dead" was outlined in red, he added...
...fellow Americans, that I will traverse the land for as long as it takes until I have hugged each and every one of you, thus uniting the entire nation--metaphorically speaking, of course--within my loving embrace. If you don't vote for me, you can all drop dead...