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After nearly 40 years as a parish priest, I have dealt with many funeral directors, and I have met only one who was disreputable. Mercifully, he went out of business. The ones I have dealt with in hundreds of funerals have been kind, thoughtful, sympathetic and understanding. Upon occasion, they have been recipients of unjustified abuse, even though some often handle welfare burials at fees below cost. I do not claim that there are no crooks in the business, but there are not many...
...both Herbert Hoover and Calvin Coolidge were cigar smokers up to and through the White House years. They could not have been true connoisseurs, since historians have dealt rather harshly with them...
...celebrate the victory and mourn the dead. They will also mourn, almost subliminally, a certain moral clarity that has been lost, a sense of common purpose that has all but evaporated. Never again, perhaps, would the Allies so handsomely collaborate. The invasion of Normandy was a thunderously heroic blow dealt to the evil empire. Never again, it may be, would war seem so unimpeachably right, so necessary and just. Never again, perhaps, would American power and morality so perfectly coincide...
...private 45-minute session with Reagan in the Oval Office, De la Madrid reiterated his belief that the problems of Central America should be dealt with not by military means but through diplomacy. He tried to enlist greater U.S. support for the diplomatic Contadora process, in which Mexico is a leading player (see box). "They agreed that the search for peace was the primary objective," a senior official explained after the meeting. In others words, there was little agreement on substance...
...writing has dealt primarily with choral music and with Beethoven, both music and biography. He has also been general editor of the Harvard Radcliffe Choral Music Theatre...