Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Grave Line does not neglect the stately homes of more traditional Hollywood sight-sees. The hearse cruises past Jayne Mansfield's "pink palace," the one with the heart-shaped swimming pool, where the cantilevered comedian dwelt at the time she literally lost her head in a car crash. It decelerates outside Elizabeth Taylor's current home, which belonged to Frank Sinatra when his son was kidnaped and held for $240,000 ransom. It motors around the corner, past Ronald and Nancy Reagan's retirement villa. The original address was 666 St. Cloud Street, but because 666 is the number...
...wasn't false in any way--there was nothingabout him that was superficial. He was 100 percentTom," said Pamela C. Mansfield, a high schoolfriend. "Perhaps his illness took away all thefacades we adopt throughout life, and hiswillingness to wade through them...
...Mansfield said that the purpose of the summer institute is "to do what we can to revive the spirit of higher education in the country...
...much that we want to go back to values," Mansfield said. "We want to recover an older rationalism which was directed to answering the fundamental question, 'How should I live?', and we want to do this by reading works that give answers to this question...
...Various disciplines have been taken over by a belief that there's no rational way to solve problems," Mansfield said. "It's a dogmatic moral relativism that we're against...