Word: cenotaph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy Cenotaph...
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations states that it was said by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney when Minister to the French Republic in 1797. A footnote says, "Inscribed on the cenotaph in his memory in St. Michael's Church, Charleston, S.C. What Pinckney really said was more forcible, 'not a damned penny for tribute...
Majestic Darkness. Most of his poems are personal-neither jeweled cenotaph nor mantic dispatches from a muse, but gifts of self. One reflects, while reading them (dropping a mental footnote to the chalkier conundrums of Pound and Eliot), how lightly the weight of their author's erudition bears down. Graves can write with warm wit, in Friday Night, of a meeting between Jove and Love...