Word: oneness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Near the tombstone inscribed "Our Mammy," Christa Barker kneels to examine the seashells heaped as decoration above one or two graves. Martha Hale jumps up and down, shouting "Isn't he darling?"-summoning everybody to the sculptured dog that stands on guard at the front and center of a family plot. Wylie Cohn picks out a weather-blackened stone engraved with the two words: "Not Dead." Sucking his breath in a whistle, Wylie says, "He really didn't want...
Death, Arnold Toynbee once said, is unAmerican. But not today. Death-education courses now abound all over the country for college, high school and elementary students. Their philosophy parallels the one that is used to justify sex education courses-talk about a subject that has been nearly taboo, and therefore mysterious and frightening, and everybody will probably feel better. One of the standard texts, by Gene Stanford and Deborah Perry, is even called Death Out of the Closet. The gifted fourth-and fifth-graders, mostly with IQs above 125, who make up Mrs. Shaak's little flock are simply...
...One earnest bad speller asks in writing: "How do you preform and octopsy...
Lawyers advise the class how to write a will, and each child does. A girl stipulates: "I leave my bed to my second cousin Millie." A boy's will: "My puppy to Tim. Fonz helmet to Tom." Out of who knows what urge one willmaker allots his comic books to his brother but specifies...
Games are played ("You have just been informed that you have only one year to live . . ."). Life and death questionnaires are submitted to each class...