Word: deaths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...engineer, chief defendant in the notorious 1930 Industrial Party trial; after long illness; in Moscow. Tried before Andrei Vishinsky, Ramzin dutifully "confessed" that, together with Winston Churchill, ex-French Premiers Poincaré and Briand, he and his fellow "wreckers" were planning a military attack on the U.S.S.R. After his death sentence had been commuted to ten years' imprisonment, Ramzin's inventions won him freedom (1932), the Order of Lenin and the 150,000-ruble Stalin Prize...
...failure of this funerary passion, the intrusion of an Englishman named Dennis, who works in a neighboring cat & dog cemetery, the Happier Hunting Ground, and Miss Thanatogenos' love-death, are the burden of The Loved...
...Loved One is by no means the subtle and cold-blooded rage at the perversion of death and love which some subtle and raging people suppose it to be. It is Evelyn Waugh caught between laughter and vomiting. The story of the patriotic pretensions and fussy snobbishness of the British film colony is grade A Waugh. Less artful is the travelogue of the intricate inanities of Whispering Glades, from the voice of a nightingale piped through the grounds and mortuary buildings to the Lake Isle of Innisfree, complete with nine rows of beans and beeless beehives with electric buzzers (burial...
...morticians of a cemetery that physically resembles Hollywood's fabulous Forest Lawn (TIME, Aug. 24, 1942), The Loved One was either Novelist Waugh's most funereal horse laugh or a retch of glacial rage at two of America's most cherished deceits-its effort to prettify death and to vulgarize love, and hence escape the impact of both. Intellectuals were bitterly divided over Waugh's intention. But the book, which was richly laced with the fun of embalming fluid, might well become a bestseller...
Waugh's Hollywood trip was not wasted. He was fascinated by the ritual for disguising death which is big business in Southern California. Waugh spent every day that he could get away prying into the fatuous, sumptuous necropolis of Forest Lawn. The result was The Loved...