Word: deathe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need to tell you why I left the radicals--politics is always a consideration of marginal differences, of weighing gains and losses, of technicalities. At least, so I now flatter myself, having then determined not to act. Besides, radical politics on campus have been written to death...
Suicide is the second greatest cause of death among college students in the United States, Dr. Matthew Ross, associate professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School, reported yesterday...
...nearly 100,000 college students threatened suicide, one in ten of these actually attempted it, and 1000 succeeded in taking their own lives. In the 15 to 19 age group, where auto accidents and cancer are the leading causes of death, suicide takes the lives of 700 each year...
...accident that these events are odd. Certain branches of the novel of personal change have long toyed with extreme metaphors for psychological and moral progress. Poe and Hawthorne, for example, used poison and death in connection with love and self-realization. The moral weight they put on psychological experience resembles Freud's--whose ideas are so dear to American screenwriters. Ulmer is certainly Freudian--see Ruthless or Murder is My Beat. But his stylization moves him beyond Freud in his view motivation and personal development. The rapidity of the changes he puts his characters through makes these changes seem ambiguous...
...yesterday, a Mr. Adolphus Edwards, a Jamaican immigrant, was pecked to death by a large Bronze Eagle in Upper Parliament St. A U.S. State Dept. spokesman said later, "We have no comment to make as of this time...