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...would be a grave mistake to underrate the attitude of the public as to the inviolability of the body. Doubtless in many cases this is based upon religious beliefs concerning the resurrection of the body. The Roman Catholics and strict Orthodox Jews oppose cremation; but this feeling about the body is prevalent in some atheistic countries...
...letter was formulated at an SDS general membership meeting on Thursday night. Dyen said he expects the challenge to be turned down. "The administrators have some undemocratic notions about dignity of office and respectability and will probably have some grave reservations about debating students," said Dyen. "I think they would lose the debate," he added...
Likewise there seems to be a general feeling among students that summer training programs are a waste of time, while summer jobs are more beneficial. Robert Betts, placement director at Catholic University, feels that many grave misconceptions that students hold about business can be cleared up by a program of summer jobs...
John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, predicted that the anti-war vote "will be a substantial majority" in another few months. "The Administration will make a grave mistake if they assume that this is anything but a vote of non-confidence," Galbraith said...
...about "the ghost or two"--the handful of fragile souls that Jarrell forsesaw clustering about his grave? Instead we have nothing less than the United States Cultural All-Star Team. Robert Lowell, John Berryman, John Crowe Ransom, Marianne Moore, James Dickey, Allen Tate, Robert Fitzgerald, Adrienne Rich, Elizabeth Bishop, Leslie A. Fiedler, Hannah Arendt, all take the podium...