Word: caskets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people of Hubert Humphrey's adopted state paid him their final tributes last week. Not even subzero cold could keep them away as they waited patiently on the steps of Minnesota's capitol rotunda in St. Paul for a view of Humphrey's flag-draped casket inside. Among the mourners: a newsboy with his paper bag still slung over his shoulder and a visitor, California's Governor Jerry Brown...
...Humphrey friend: "The only service we ever had here that ran as long as this one was when Hubert was the preacher." Afterward Muriel, in a pink dress and fur jacket, stood in the cold greeting guests, including Coretta King, whom she embraced. While the honor guard lifted the casket and moved it to a waiting hearse, she wiped away some tears, then smiled and waved to friends in the crowd. At sundown Humphrey was buried in Minneapolis' Lakewood Cemetery as television spotlights eerily illuminated his final resting place. A 19-gun salute rang through the frigid...
...course, the only masterpiece of portraiture in the show. The tradition of the Roman portrait bust was kept and amplified among patrician families. The show is also exceptionally rich in objets de luxe, ranging from a golden Aphrodite set on a lapis lazuli shell to The Casket of Projecta, a bridal coffer, dug up in Rome late in the 18th century, but made around 375 A.D. to celebrate a marriage of Christian aristocrats. A m�lange of Christian symbol ism and the still-active images of classicism ?Nereids riding on sea serpents, Aphrodite borne up on the half shell...
...islands, nubile maidens are decked out on feast days in necklaces, bracelets and headdresses of old gold coins as well as silver and heirloom jewelry, the better to lure would-be suitors. In Epirus in northern Greece, a bride goes to her wedding on horseback, carrying jewels in a casket; in Crete, the dowry often follows her on a mule train. In Athens, a monthly newspaper called Arranged Marriage provides a kind of form chart of the financial attractions available in the marketplace of love. (Sample entry: "Woman, 38, with moral principles, dowry of 200,000 drachmas cash...
...flowery as a dime-store sympathy card-or as colorful as an Erskine Caldwell novel. Recently one backwoods Alabama dirt farmer was laid out in a dark suit, white shirt and tie. The old man had never before been so well dressed. His impressed relatives removed him from the casket, propped him against a wall and had him photographed for posterity. While elsewhere in the nation people are writing books and teaching university courses about how to face death with dignity, the South has long known about this instinctively. It knows that death is part of life...