Word: coffined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third husband, Brajesh Singh, who died last fall in Moscow of a heart attack: "As you lay in your coffin in our dismal Moscow crematorium, strangers came up to look at your calm, beautiful face. It was very cold, and we stood there in fur coats ... all of you, my dear friends from the unfortunate Institute of World Literature...
...intense personal unhappiness, as well as the popular rejection of his work, convinced him that it was better to continue the campaign in other genres. "The shits are killing us," Mailer wrote bitterly, "even as they kill themselves." Better, then, to hammer the nails into the coffin directly than through the subtlety of fiction. Better, too, to give the heathens a guided tour than to lose them in the intricate patterns of one's thoughts. Best to wage total warfare, to offer open assault on a society which would not recognize its cancer even if one forced a mirror...
Television carried the pontifical Requiem Mass throughout Western Europe, beyond the Iron Curtain to Czechoslovakia, by satellite to the U.S. and parts of Asia. After the ceremony, German Catholic and Protestant churchmen and the visiting dignitaries followed the coffin the 385 yards from the cathedral to the Rhine, where it was placed aboard a German navy patrol boat for a 20-mile trip upstream to Adenauer's village of Rhondorf. There, in a private hillside cemetery, his body was lowered into a grave alongside the flower-decked ones of his two wives and infant...
...beloved Rhine on a ferry beneath the brooding Drachenfels. It proceeded over the exact route through Bonn that Adenauer had always taken on his way to the Bundestag. There, on the very spot where for 14 years as Chancellor Adenauer had presided over Cabinet meetings, the simple brown oak coffin lay in state for two days, while thousands of Germans filed past. Then, in the soaring, twin-spired Cathedral of Cologne, where he had knelt as the city's mayor, a pontifical Requiem Mass was to be sung by Josef Cardinal Frings. From Cologne, Adenauer's body...
...students at the conference, however, side-stepped disobedience and rejected proposals made recently by William S. Coffin, chaplain at Yale, that Divinity students had in their draft cards and refuse to cooperate with the draft...