Word: epitaph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...College in Columbia, Mo. And so, with his marriage, his graduation and his conversion, he at last stood outside the long shadow of Beacon Hill. He would deal with its traditional claims upon him only in his own terms: in poetry. And he would write New England's epitaph rather than a Frostian celebration...
...Studios, and he flourished during the movies' Pleistocene epoch-circa A.D. 1930-58-subsisting on the backbones of executives and the egos of movie stars. When he died in 1958, more than 2,000 people turned out for his funeral, prompting Red Skelton to compose the most quoted epitaph in movie history: "It only proves what they always say-give the public something they want to see and they'll come...
...line is as fitting an epitaph for those who have died as it is a raison d'etre for those who will continue to seek and find...
...rather than tragically cathartic. Intellectually, he appears to embrace the fallacy of universal guilt. The words Jew and German are never once uttered in The Investigation. Ironically, this depersonalization is not unrelated to the dehumanization that made the whole merciless horror possible. As the victims, the Jews merit the epitaph of being named. As the perpetrators of the crime, the Germans deserve to be indicted...
...deliberation over a motion to take up the measure, its supporters made their second, foredoomed attempt to choke off debate, but mustered only a 52-to-41 majority for cloture-ten short of the necessary two-thirds of those present and voting. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield thereupon recited the epitaph. "It would be futile," said he, "to prolong consideration of this issue...