Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What a swellegant day for a picnic," burbles Ne'er-Do-Weil Ned Claypoole, as the platitudes clatter with the clods over his mother's coffin. But for Ned's 16-year-old daughter Lovey, the April day of deliverance from grandma's tyranny turns heavy with foreboding. Lovey, The Beautiful Blind Girl, can see again-but she has cunningly preserved her three-week secret. For sight regained means Paradise Lost: an end to the antic freedom accorded Lovey by the town, and eviction from the cemetery's marble orchard which, blind, she has been...
...Ishmael's intermittent narration, and in numerous speeches by Ahab that are taken almost verbatim from the book. At the same time, realizing that the camera and the pen are by no means interchangeable storytellers, they have not hesitated to take beneficial liberties with the novel. In Peter Coffin's Inn they have inserted a drinking scene that instantly captures the character and spirit of the whaling men. Where Melville needed whole chapters to describe the processing of the whale's flesh--chapters which in most abridgments and adaptations are the first to go--Huston's camera in one shot...
...Soviet leadership is capable of delicate literary irony. The entire Presidium filed past Fadeyev's coffin...
Fifteen members of the Senate Agriculture Committee gathered around their coffin-shaped conference table to consider the House farm bill and plowed into the task with astonishing efficiency. Behind their workmanlike approach last week was a revelation: mail from home has indicated that the farm revolt has been brewing less on the land than in the minds of election-sensitive politicians...
...Thomas' descendants for permission to open the tomb. Last year, amid the storm of controversy that followed publication of Hoffman's book The Murder of the Man Who Was "Shakespeare," consent was reluctantly given. Last week Sir Thomas' tomb was opened. "We found sand. No coffin, no papers-just sand,'' reported the crestfallen Hoffman. Added the London News Chronicle: "Alas, not even poor Yorick...