Word: grave
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...questions still stand after finishing Voice in the Wilderness. Perhaps Lamont's chronicling of his quiet, underexposed work for humanism, civil liberties and socialism is a desperate attempt for recognition from a retired fellow-traveler standing a half-skip, jump or foot away from the grave. Lamont wrote obsessively on the subject of death as a young man--philosophic studies, poetry anthologies, scientific debates on reincarnation and psychic phenomena. His thanatology concluded in a "higher hedonism" doctrine, which stressed living vitally, though ethically, since man is always a heartbeat away from nonentity...
...Grave Decadence. That was the case in the capitals of the so-called Third World. From New Delhi, U.S. Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan angrily cabled the State Department that he had assured Prime Minister Indira Gandhi that the CIA had not been involved in the Chilean coup. Now, he said, she wondered whether India might not be next. Many Latin Americans shrugged; the episode seemed to confirm their suspicions that the CIA invariably is behind the continent's frequent upheavals?political and otherwise...
...intervention in Chile was wholly illegal interference in the sovereignty of another state. If you ask me to see it from the point of view of an American, the fact that Senators and Congressmen can interfere with the national security interests of the country for political motives indicates a grave decadence in the system...
Many religious thinkers believe that the pardon has done serious harm. They argue that, because it has halted the due process of law in regard to Nixon's actions in Watergate, the pardon constitutes a grave miscarriage of justice. Americans now will never know the full truth about Watergate, or be assured, as they had a right to be, that there were not other, more fearful skeletons in the White House closets. Richard Nixon may well be suffering, but the American people have also suffered?and at Nixon's hands. Deceived, anguished, still too much in the dark about...
Should they be tried, though, the doctors appear prepared to argue their innocence on all fronts, from a possible refutation of Flanagan's simple grave-robbing case, to a complicated justification of their alleged conduct from a medical ethics standpoint. Chayet said last week that a "number" of researchers--none of whom he would name--had offered to testify for the defense, and that as a result the defense's stance on medical ethics would be "formidable and considerable." The motions do imply, however, that the lawyers expect the trial debate to descend into an argument over the abortion issue...