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Outside, a man with a crepe-draped Argentine flag perched himself in the fork of a tree and announced dramatically that he would stay there forever. (Rain soon forced him down.) Churches throughout Argentina tolled a slow, mournful death-knell. A month of crises in Eva Perón's illness had put the nation on notice that she would die; by sunrise the citizens had draped buildings and lamp posts in black...
Nine years later, undergraduates broke $300 worth of windows, and President Josiah Quincy called in the Grand Jury of Middlesex County to nab the offenders. The students were outraged and followed by smashing furniture, setting off explosions, wearing crepe on their arms, hanging their President in effigy from the Rebellion Tree, and breaking more windows...
...listener has been offered "at laughably low prices, sweaters in two styles-turtle or V-neck. Just state what kind of neck you have." Or how about a ten-day course on "How to Become a 97-lb. Weakling"? Or a Handy Burglar Kit, containing jimmies, canvas gloves, crepe-soled shoes and "aliases you can use over and over again -for example, Benjamin Franklin and Mary, Queen of Scots...
...downs of human existence are pretty small matters after all, it is hard to view death with Wilder's objectivity. Three generations of a family are born in the play, have their Christmas dinners on stage, and die by walking through a door covered with black crepe paper. These deaths mount up after a while...
...Atlanta, on Highway 41, a onetime barbecue pit has been turned into a Bible classroom. One evening recently, eleven disciples watched Robert L. West go over and flip off the light switch. "It's kinda dark in here without the lights," apologized West, as he walked behind the crepe-wrapped white cross now lighted up by two candles, "but I would ask you to look upon this symbol-perhaps the greatest in the world...