Word: churchyards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PAUL'S, at Broadway and Fulton Street, is the oldest public building in the city (Trinity itself has twice been rebuilt), and like its mother church attracts a mixture of local businessmen and tourists on weekdays, subway riders and society on Sundays. Like Trinity's celebrated churchyard, where lie Alexander Hamilton and Robert Fulton, St. Paul's also has historic associations; George Washington worshiped there when he was in New York...
...dedicated Monarchist, set himself to bait the sulky showoff, Silvio, an ardent Demo-Christian, at every turn. When Silvio planted cherry trees on the borders of his property, Carmine made him cut them down because they overhung the village highway. When Silvio built himself a tomb in the local churchyard, Carmine complained that its steps were on public property. "Material wealth can never replace brains," he gloated when the steps were ordered removed...
Last week the villagers of Orgosolo trooped once again to the local churchyard to sob the age-old Sardinian funeral lament of one Antonio Francesco Manca, 48, a goatherd by trade and the father of four children. By ancient tradition, his death notice was posted in the village streets, "killed by an unknown hand and unexpectedly taken from his dear ones . . ." Why? Nobody knew, except that Antonio was No. 13 on the list...
That is the epitaph that Poet William Butler Yeats wrote for himself, and, according to his careful directions ("No marble, no conventional phrase"), it is engraved on his simple tomb in the churchyard of Drumcliff, in the poet's native Sligo. But ever since his death in 1939, his admirers have refused to cast a cold eye on his memory. Last month an American economist, John J. Kelly, remarked at a Dublin dinner party that he would subscribe $1,400 towards a Yeats memorial if Ireland would put up an equal sum. Ireland's men of letters soon...
...Walpole, with whom he was again on friendly terms, secretly sent one of them to a publisher, who decided to publish it. Gray was horrified. How, he asked, could he "escape the Honour they would inflict upon me?" But he faced up to it. Elegy in a Country Churchyard (which probably contains more familiar phrases than any other poem of its length in the language*) was published and later appeared in an illustrated edition with its five fellows under the discreet title: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley/ for six Poems by/ Mr. T. Gray...