Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enact the scene in which they discovered and buried the body of Joseph Axminster, another vagabond, so that his two friends in the audience will know what became of him. She also announces that the back of the stage--bare except for a crate that becomes Axminster's coffin and some stools--is the municipal garbage dump and that off to the right is a jail. Her best acting is done later in the show when she play's Axminster's dead body...
...prison-cell attempt to work out a "nonreligious interpretation of Biblical concepts" focused on Jesus as "the man for others." By talking almost exclusively about Christ, the argument goes, the church would be preaching a spiritual hero whom even non-believers can admire. Yale's Protestant Chaplain William Sloane Coffin reports that "a girl said to me the other day, 'I don't know whether I'll ever believe in God, but Jesus is my kind...
...letter from Fidel himself, asking for mercy-and the judges let Cubela off with only 25 years. The reason? From exiles trickling through to Miami came word that students at Cubela's old stomping ground, the University of Havana, had staged an angry demonstration, with a black-draped coffin, signs reading, "If Cubela dies, so do you, Fidel!" and an ancient horse-in jeering reference to Castro's nickname, el Caballo (the horse...
...married to Yale University Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr. The other children are Paul, 31, advertising manager for the RCA Victor Red Seal records; Alina, 21, a French literature major at New York University; and John, 19, a drama major at U.C.L.A...
...Coffin said he hopes that the United States can negotiate an "honorable disengagement," but he likes to speculate on the possibility of an arbitration. "We'd come out looking very good if we became the first major power to submit such a major issue to U.N. arbitration," he said...