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Diseases are no less mortal than the people they afflict. So argues Dr. Bernard Straus of New York Medical College in the current Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. As Straus points out, dozens of mankind's most awful afflictions have ceased to exist...
...time. Granted both Blake's and Ginsberg's belief in the illusory nature of the universe, and the transience of the ego in any one incarnation, how then does one relate to other men and society? The poem is the voice of man's eternal soul speaking to the mortal body...
Whate'er is born of Mortal Birth...
...Hawthorne's allegorical short story, Young Goodman Brown, the ingenuous Puritan wanders into the forest one dark night and catches all his friends, neighbors and saintly village elders in mortal sin-in this case devil worship. It might have been just a dream, but it made a lifelong cynic of young Brown. Much the same thing happened not long ago to a young reporter named Charley Thompson, who wandered into Jacksonville. Fla. The sin was not devil worship but pollution, a suitable modern equivalent. And it was no dream...
This spring's shooting at Jackson State was not the first on that campus. Three years ago, highway patrolmen fired their shotguns in warning, they said, over the heads of rock-throwing students; Ben Brown, a married student and father of a young child, was found with mortal wounds from 00 buckshot...