Word: lamonts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those who prefer it, Lamont also offers a CREMATION SERVICE: "Through the purifying process of fire, this body now becomes transformed into the more simple and ultimate elements of our universe...
...humanist funeral service, Lamont hopes, will purge the business of death of "sentimentality, showiness, and somberness...
...himself be buried without fuss. After all, why make much ceremonial ado about a body that has just passed into Nothing? But in practice, even atheists have a hankering for music and a few well-chosen words, and this pressing problem has just been taken up by Corliss Lamont, 52, the wealthy fellow traveler. In a pamphlet entitled A Humanist Funeral Service (Horizon Press; $1.00), Lamont paradoxically proposes some comforting last rites for unbelievers. In 1932, Lamont wrote his Columbia Ph.D. thesis on "The Illusion of Immortality," and he still insists that "death is the final end of the individual...
Highlights from Lamont's lament...
Since its founding in 1925, the Fund has provided the University with over $7,000,000. A large part of this total was spent in the construction of Lamont Library...