Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chester Bowles last night sharply attacked the implicit "isolationism" of United States foreign policy, and said that unless the United States responds to the great new world crisis the nation will be in grave danger...
...review. It is a great asset, and we do not see why we should be penalized by a device which is designed to force the less conscientious to attend the listening labs. Therefore, we urge that the Music I teaching staff reconsider its decision, which we feel is a grave error. Donald Nawi '58 James Balley...
...dying, so he called his sons around him; the instructions he gave them were minute and terrifying. As soon as he died a calabash of palm wine was to be broken in the yard of his hut. Then in Eyobélé's open grave a white cockerel was to be beheaded and released. If the headless, fluttering bird flew out of the grave it was well: the dead man was on his way to the upper regions. But if the bird stayed in the grave, the dying kani darkly warned, it would be better for the people...
Murder used to be all a mystery novelist needed to get on with his story. The new whodunits stick to that main tent at traction, but beckon the jaded customers with such lurid little sideshows as sadism, pandering, homosexuality, counterfeiting, prostitution, adultery and grave-robbing...
...GRAVE, by Wilson Tucker (250 pp.; Rinehart; $2.75), is not much of a mystery after the first chapters, but it is notable for an unusual hero and some fascinating details about the unpleasant profession of burking.* B. G. Brooks is a mild-mannered little investigator for a trade association of cemetery owners. He always carries an umbrella, lets off steam by exclaiming "Gracious, me!" and "Oh, dear!" but is a dangerous man for villains to tangle with...