Word: churchyards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most effective speeches, Wilson spoke of "a Britain full of life and vigor and achievement" after his five years in office. He promised better times to come and compared the Tories to poor-mouthing "Victorian undertakers welcoming a wet winter and the promise of a full churchyard." Labor delegates, who have sat on their hands after some of Harold's sorrier speeches, gave him a two-minute standing ovation, and even the independent Times of London acknowledged his speech as "one of the best in recent years by any party leader...
...would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets...
Pushed against the railings of the churchyard and the church walls, the believers, far from objecting, look around nervously for fear of getting a knife in the back, or of having their watches stolen-the watches on which they keep track of the remaining minutes before the Resurrection of Christ. Here, outside the church, they, the Orthodox, are much fewer than the grinning, milling rabble who oppress and terrorize them more than ever did the Tartars. The Tartars, surely, would have let up for Matins on Easter Sunday...
...most recent poems in the New Yorker echo the simplicity and sensitivity of the poems for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957, and the National Book Award for Things of This World. The quiet titles of the New Yorker poems. "In the Field" and "in a Churchyard," recall two other poems from 1947, "In a Bird Sanctuary" and "A Dutch Courtyard...
...displays a subtle feeling for the shifting, subterranean currents of Chopin's emotion. There is an urgency in the scherzo, a brooding pathos in the famous funeral march, a bizarre mysteriousness in the final skittering octaves, which Anton Rubinstein described as the winds of night blowing over churchyard graves...