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...Vatican official, the Holy Office letter was issued "because there has been a change in attitudes toward burial and cremation around the world." Most non-Roman Christians long ago accepted cremation as no less reverent than interment, and Catholic theologians agree that God could just as easily resurrect a body from scattered ashes as from dry bones in a grave. The new ruling will probably be of most help to bishops in the predominantly Buddhist countries of Asia, where burial is regarded as a revolting and disrespectful custom. Japanese Catholics have already drawn up a cremation rite...
...memoirs also trace the MacArthur clan back to its origins in Scotland seven centuries ago, and dip lovingly into the 19th century to resurrect the figure of General Arthur MacArthur, whose military career, from Grant through Dewey, rivaled that...
...Redbook was exciting because it was clear and novel doctrine; it did nothing less than state the aims of liberal education. The new Committee obviously cannot resurrect the Redbook. But they can try to see how some of its more general tenets might apply to a society and an educational system far more complex and specialized than that of 1945. All this has been said before. But it has not been emphasized enough that considering and recommending reforms in the program will not end the Committee's work. All the possible variations and improvements on Gen Ed (some of them...
...kind of ecstasy with which the artistic consciousness perceives it. Like Joyce, Durrell, and others, Miller wants his audience to emulate him: not as a professional, or even an amateur writer, nor in any specific activities, but in the ecstatic experience of life without its restricting illusions. He would resurrect the body and the soul, the tiny pleasures and the grandest visions; but for either of these purposes, the illusions must be destroyed that seduce man away from himself. Hope of any salvation from some external event is the greatest of these illusions; only out of an absolute nihilism...
...Morrow) stole the bread from his church's altar when he was young, and has been playing out a whole series of Mr. Morrow's fantasies ever since. His obsession is carving a mountain into an equestrian status of Crazy Horse, which represents, among other things, a desire to resurrect the noble barbarian, a wish to imprison God in stone and thus kill him, and a hope of consecrating the stone of the mountain. I know all these things, because Morrow has written them into the monologue that constitutes the last quarter of the play...