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...Selle's life was held on April 26th in Memorial Church Professor Patricia Herlihy, co-master of Mather House, was, like most everyone, almost at a loss for words. "What can be said about a 21-year-old who died?" Like John Neumann, Ru Selle was an idealist of powerful commitments who found it difficult to reconcile her enthusiasms with the world she saw around her. In high school, she was devoted to her church and in college most generous to her friends. The quotation from Ru Selle which was chosen to appear on the program of the memorial service...
...Idealist Police...
Darman bristles at the suggestion that he is an ambitious mercenary who works for Reagan only to be at the center of power. "Basically, I'm committed to public service," he contends. "I am a long-term idealist and a short-term realist." He says that he supports the Reagan revolution as "an important corrective" to stop America from drifting too far from a workable free-market economy. "If I had to go home too many nights and tell my self that what I am doing is not right, I could not continue doing this...
...Idealist's Death...
...violent death of Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut [Jan. 30], is yet another source of despair for the Lebanese. Kerr was an idealist who shared with the Lebanese people the hope that Lebanon would remain the intellectual powerhouse of the Middle East. Terrorists' bullets have shattered that hope...