Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meyer Tobiansky was buried at once, in a rocky hillside near the Arab village, a small stone mound marking his grave...
...Eminence, Ky., Theater Owner Arey Miles pushed a campaign to improve the unmarked grave of Cinemaster David W. Griffith, who died last year. Collected so far, from three exhibitors...
...regards the U.S. as destined to be a "great big promiscuous grave into which tumble, and there disintegrate, all that was formerly race, class, or nationhood." Many Americans share with Eliot his fear of the standardizing power of technology and mass education; Lewis relishes the prospect of "one intellectual and emotional standard" which he hopes will soon make "the inhabitant of Mexico City . . . indistinguishable from the dweller in Montreal...
This whole problem raises a grave dilemma, as my letter doubtless indicates; I cannot find any simple answer. I should like to see Marxist doctrine vigorously and clearly expounded in our universities; we must understand the strength of Communism, and the power of its appeal to many people, if we are to act wisely in the world today. But a frank clear exposition of Marxist doctrine is the last thing to be expected from men trained to work by undercover methods. The usual formulas by which one attempts to guarantee freedom of speech and teaching are all, I fear, inadequate...
...final warning: "If the Rollins faculty reverts to the lecture and recitation system with their inevitable grades and examinations, all of which tend to make the professor a detective and the student a bluffer, then you may hear the creaking sound as I turn over in my grave...