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...their action. In analyzing 721 suicide notes collected by the Los Angeles county coroner's office, Psychologists Edwin S. Shneidman and Norman L. Farberow were struck by the many instructions, admonitions and lists of things to do that seemed to epitomize "the illogicality of the entire suicidal deed-thinking simultaneously and contradictorily of being absent and giving orders as though one were going to be present to enforce them...
...laws are rarely enforced. Even the Roman Catholic Church has modified its position. It is not unusual these days to give a suicide a proper Roman Catholic funeral and a consecrated grave, on the ground "that his demented soul did not possess sufficient freedom of will for his heinous deed to constitute a mortal...
Poetry Editor D.S. Ament has two poems here, one an untitled experiment in anti-syntax ("deep as death's yet pools are/her eyes") which has some interest but some impossible tin-ear cacaphony ("and then more than ever i know of"). His other effort, "The Deed," is doggeral. The rhythm of its short rimed phrases suggests Bob Dylan's fine song "Like a Rolling Stone," but comparison insults Dylan. Ament's phrases are all empty rime-tags...
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...TIME too is guilty of the iniquitous deed. What a disappointment. Fallen prey to a deluding presentation of Notre Dame's true strength and greatness. A 795-line story with but 13 lines devoted to the fine work of the unsung heroes, Coach John Ray and his defensive unit. LAWRENCE D. SHUBNELL Notre Dame '63 Beltsville...