Word: pamphlet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 conscious personality," but he now feels that "rituals...
...special Conservative League committee is preparing a pamphlet which Cole claims will provide enough damaging information on the H.L.U. to prevent students from joining it. By gathering all its information from the Library archives, which are open to the public, the League is seeking to forestall charges of spying...
Perhaps the most telling criticism of the plan and indeed, of the Dartmouth intellectual atmosphere, comes unwittingly from the Great Issues administrations themselves. In a mimeographed pamphlet the committee writes; "During the last two years of college the student body tends to be split into groups and as often as not choosing electives to augment rather than supplement their major work. This results in the failure of many students to maintain a broad awareness of the basic issues of our times which they will soon have to confront as active citizens...
...Majors is one said," the pamphlet continues, "have been able to speak together in their own particular jargon, but beyond the weather six, and athletic and social topics, the class as a whole has been without a community of intellectual interest or purpose...
...life [comes] as near to perfection as is possible . . . There is much value in a minority report . . . Powerful, though perhaps prejudiced, is the case as pleaded by [Salt]." But the film did little box office at the highbrow Academy Cinema, due partly to the presence of Communist pamphlet-passers. "To put it bluntly," complained Manager Francis Howard, "Salt's laid...