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Since the Victorian poet wrote those lines a century ago, doctors have become highly skilled in maintaining a spark of life in even the most aged and debilitated of patients. Harry Truman's last days underscored that ability-and raised again the question of whether such heroic medical efforts are really merciful...
...argued that the unrecognizable assemblage of rags and bones that finally shuffles back into Spark, Iowa, and back out again, is not Pierce Davis, but the spirit of walking itself. It can also be argued that David Ely solves some difficult problems by the simple expedient of avoiding them. How Davis crosses some large bodies of water on foot remains a pesky mystery; how he hobbles across Scotland on a broken leg is only slightly clearer...
...have experimented with a variety of formats for combining lectures with discussions in the General Education course I direct. Sometimes panel discussions with Teaching Fellows will spark further discussion from undergraduates. Frequently by lecturing at an hour when the hall is not taken lot the subsequent hour, I have encouraged students to stay on to take part in a more active discussion; commonly, those who take the trouble to speak on such occasions found it feasible to lead a discussion among several hundred students. But for this to happen requires that students come with a sufficient sense of engagement...
...find streets barricaded with paddy wagons and helmeted riot troops, the Square ablaze with bonfires and theatrical hysteria. Whiffs of pungent tear gas later penetrated even the inner recesses of Adams House where guests at a reception for the Trillings sheepishly held wetted towels to their noses. That spark set off a Spring of agitation and activist preoccupations that left many a subtler or less relevant issue to a later day. And those of us who, faithful to the whole series of Trilling's lectures, had found them as frustrating by their sheer velocity and density as they were arousing...
Whatever small spark started the conflagration, there was plenty of brittle tinder lying about to keep it going. A preliminary investigation report, put together by Navy officers and obtained by Downing last week, states that the riot really began when 30 or 40 blacks, screaming and yelling on the mess deck, were confronted by Marine guards with their nightsticks at the ready. According to the report, by the time the captain arrived, a couple of the blacks were holding chairs over their heads, and a white was exhorting the Marines to attack them with inflammatory remarks like, "Kill those niggers...