Word: coffining
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...have been dead for nearly half a century. In this dreamworld of his own anesthetized devising, Mr. Arcularis falls in love with a pretty shipmate, but in the darkness of night he keeps sleepwalking gruesomely to the ship's refrigerating plant and tries to pry open a coffin: "And I'll kneel there, looking down at my own dead face...
...steered his way over the Atlantic towards a distant light, amid the crying of seagulls and the clanging of bells-and the same hand is at the helm of Mr. Arcularis. The result is poignant, eerie, fateful, with highly dramatic moments. No other living poet, using heartbeats and a coffin as his props, could convey a grimmer impression of man's syncopated march into the bosom of death...
...held that Chou was so anxious to make friends that he would even give up his claim to the villages. But the rumor was promptly scotched by at least one knowing agriculturist. "Red China will never give up a claim to that area," he prophesied. "It produces the best coffin wood in the world...
...PAUL C. COFFIN Velm, Belgium
...Communist Manifesto of 1848, wended his way to Britain's University of Durham, to harangue some 350 students on his threadbare theme of "world peace through trust in the Soviet Union." He had barely begun babbling when seven students entered the hall, bore down the aisle a coffin draped in Hungary's national colors, solemnly rested it before his rostrum. Chirped the Red Dean nervously, as applause filled the building: "May wars cease." After finishing his speech, he discovered that he should have hung onto his black Homburg. Some enterprising students had swiped it, later raffled...