Word: coffining
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...await with him the inevitable emergence--like grass through the cracks in the sidewalk--of a new Consciousness of love, blue jeans and rock music, a Consciousness III. Says the Times: "Youth culture has gotten its very own Norman Vincent Peale." They were not referring to William Sloan Coffin, Yale's famous Radical Chaplain...
...stone copy of one of his best-known paintings, an image recognizable to thousands of people who probably could not have identified a Turner, a Blake or even a Constable: The Old Shepherd's Chief Mourner, a grief-stricken collie resting its head on its master's coffin...
...Plante's seventh novel is a textbook example of such successful reticence. Its narrator, Daniel Francoeur, is a writer living in London; he pays three visits to his aging parents in Providence, the last of them on the occasion of his father's funeral. Standing beside the coffin with his six brothers, Daniel finds himself weeping: "Then, with a little jolt, I felt that I was being dramatic, and my sobbing stopped...
...foreign airline in Johannesburg doesn't think Blacks will be ready for the vote for at least another 15 or 20 years. A guide, who voted against the Nationalists in the last election because "every time they hold back (on reform) they're driving another nail in my coffin," opposes granting Blacks the vote "until they've been properly educated...
...NOTEBOOK: Villaneuva also handled the punting for Harvard, lofting six for a 35.8 average, including a perfect coffin-corner kick. Senior punter Steve Flach, the incumbent, did make the trip, however...Junior Scott McCabe was Harvard's fourth-leading rusher, carrying five times for 26 yards...