Word: mortalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Even the Roman Catholic Church has modified its position. It is not unusual these days to give a suicide a proper Roman Catholic funeral and a consecrated grave, on the ground "that his demented soul did not possess sufficient freedom of will for his heinous deed to constitute a mortal...
Fierce & Naughty. It would take a hero to rule so complex a society, and the hardest thing to accept about Ferdinand E. Marcos is that any mortal could have tucked into 49 years as much action, adventure, heroism, devotion to duty, romance, singleness of purpose and accomplishment as he has. Born in the farming town of Sarrat, in Ilocos Norte province on Luzon's craggy northwest slopes. Marcos grew up under a code of spartan self-reliance. His father, Mariano Marcos, was a stern, humorless politician who refused comfort to any of his four children if they cried over injuries...
Outside a dining room at the New York Stock Exchange stands a statue showing those indefatigable financial foes, the bull and the bear, locked in mortal combat. The bear seems to be losing, which is precisely what happened in the market last week. After a long, cold summer, the Big Board experienced its most dramatic one-day advance in three years. And papa bears, mama bears and baby bears, all of whom had been betting on a continued decline, suddenly found themselves running for cover...
Meanwhile, Billy's mortal remains lie in a cold-storage receiving vault at the cemetery. Asked what Billy would make of it all, a Broadway friend said: "He'd be damned mad at first, but then he'd see the irony of it; and when he realized that his name was in the papers, it would be just fine with...
...drew the bed sheet over her nude body. Then he returned to the note?partially typewritten, partially handwritten, partially printed?that was to be his valedictory. Included was a tragic timetable: "12:30 a.m.?Mother already dead. 3 o'clock?both dead." He hated his father "with a mortal passion," he wrote, and regretted that his mother had given "the best 25 years of her life to that man." Clearly, the erratic orbit of his mind had already carried him off to some remote aphelion of despair. "Life is not worth living," he wrote. He had apparently concluded that...