Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Challenge plays down the academic character of its subject matter. A recent letter to prospective students said: "In Challenge we don't study English: we do pantomime, act out stories and plays, read horror tales, write comic and adventure stories, and play Hangman and Ghost...
...Hotspur said he was indignant to be killed by such a person as Prince Henry, who was so much his inferior." Still more cryptic is what Blake called in his sketchbook a "Spiritual Communication." Possibly Blake intended it to be a recording of a conversation he had with the ghost of a flea (he sketched several of these: they look rather like Jiminy Cricket). The "communication" reads: "Can you think I can endure to be considered as a vapour arising from your food? I will leave you if you doubt I am of no greater importance than a butterfly...
...render judgements to please the older generation, we do have a library, and we do read books and journals. We pay attention to clinical findings as well as to what we read. All our statements are documented in medical publications or based on clinical experience. We have no ghost writer from the F.D.A. We have seen patients who have moved from marijuana up through more dangerous drugs to heroin. We do not know of any advantave to be obtained from misrepresenting what we observe...
Stalin's Ghost...
...violent attacks by Communist leaders in Rude Pravo (Red Justice), daily organ of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. The tone of these critical remarks indicates that the party is not yet ready to accept either the dissent of intelligentsia or any far-reachine; dialogues between Christians and Marxists. The ghost of Stalin is still around...