Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Welcome to a Wife. Two years from now, anyone entering the Virginia cemetery will find the fountain in a courtyard, surrounded by a marble wall. "The idea," explains Milles, "is to help people overcome the tragedy of death. To show that people have a good time there, too." There will be a young husband, arms out stretched to welcome his wife into the afterworld; a mother greeting a daughter; a French family which had been killed in an auto accident; two sisters who had drowned; an American mother who had died in childbirth, and her baby who had died three...
Besmocked, and mounted upon his ladders, he remains in his studio most of the day. Beyond a few intruders ("Mothers and children," he mutters with disgust), nothing worries him-not even his age. Surrounded by his ghost-white figures, Carl Milles says serenely: "I don't believe in death...
...Judgment thunders: the wages of sin is death. Ye must...
...should . . . anybody . .. expect people to go to church and listen with respect to a priest reading the Sermon on the Mount, when they know that atom bombs are being made for use? The Church decays because the doctrines so often seem irrelevant to the issues of life and death, about which it is supposed to give the answers...
...morning, even if not the happiest moment of their lives, is merely a routine matter. For some others, getting out of bed immediately makes it ten to one against them; awakening brings an emotional hangover that has nothing to do with liquor.*The day ahead seems impossible and even death preferable. Usually, with the routine of washing, dressing and breakfast, the gloom wears off and life seems worth living again...