University of Notre Dame - Dome Yearbook (Notre Dame, IN)

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November 22, Thanksgiving day, marked the tenth anniversary of John Kennedy ' s death. Somehow, amid the festivity of Notre Dame ' s romp over Air Force, words read years before took on a fresher meaning . . . And looking at her as she told of the horrors, I was feeling the im- pact of the dead and dying and maimed and the lost children and menless women, and I was wondering, how does one see that? I was see- ing Betty Shabazz watching Malcolm get shot and Jackie Kennedy reaching for John ' s sk ull and Coretta King hearing on the phone of Mar- tin ' s death and Ethel Kennedy smiling that uncertain smile that said, ' It ' s not a gun I hear. ' . . . The positive good is life. But what is life without commitment? Ida Lewis

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Sometimes it ' s so easy to forget that this campus is a part of the real world; it ' s so simple and quiet here. Autumnal color and athletic magic tend to wrap us in a self-contained unit that feeds upon itself for continuance and seldom looks out- ward. Maybe that ' s our own fault. Somehow we ' ve lost the frenzied drive of our college predecessors of four or five years ago. Yet, we ' ve gained something through our introspection that may prove invaluable. For as events rush to overtake us, we ' ve developed the ability to absord dramatic blow upon dramatic blow. Watergate, Agnew ' s resignation, energy crises, Croce ' s death, and campus drug raids have barraged our sensibilities. No matter what the level of the blow, we have managed to rebound and move on with just one remaining question: In which direction should we travel?