Word: coffining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mikhail Zaitsev made a beautiful corpse. Propped in the coffin he had carved and painted himself, he wore his Sunday suit and an expression of noble serenity. Then, when the village photographer had finished taking his picture, Zaitsev leaped out and helped his neighbors down the generous supplies of vodka and cold cuts he had laid in for the wake. Next day, the neighbors mailed the funeral picture to his estranged wife in another village, explaining that Comrade Zaitsev had been electrocuted by a high-tension wire...
...Coffin said he had talked to Dean Monro about Harvard's decision, and that he recognized the project's unattractive factors. 'A more creative way of dealing with the negative aspects is to go ahead and do the project," he said...
...committee based at Yale may carry out Project Jarba. No definite plans have been made, but the Rev. William sloane Coffin, the Yale chaplain, said yesterday that he was "impressed by the worthiness of the project," and had written to CARE about details...
...Coffin said yesterday that he doubted that Yale or any Yale organization would officially approve the project. "My personal feeling is that Yale shouldn't sponsor the project," Coffin said. "Even a Christian students' organization wouldn't do it if it had to hang out a sign saying, 'Jews need not apply...
Thus, "the question of principle enters into the question of sponsorship," Coffin said. "But the project should be done--it sounds like a good project." The best way to do it, Coffin said, would be through some sort of ad hoc committee...