Word: epitaph
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...became a prostitute; the elder stayed home to be an old maid. The old man died in the poorhouse. Alessi and the girl he loved, Nunziata, were left to rebuild the family's fortunes. "The house of the Malavoglia is destroyed'' a neighbor said in epitaph. "Cursed be the fate that led to so many misfortunes...
Reason Two is Churchillian. The epitaph history has already written for him, admiring as it is, depicts him chiefly as a "war Prime Minister," the indomitable, eloquent man who is at his best when the enemy threatens...
...single hearing. A Philadelphia matron summed up his last work in a sentence. "It sounds," she sighed happily, "just like Gilbert & Sullivan." For Sergei Prokofiev, the composer who once seemed to be leading his musical generation toward powerful new ranges of expression, her words were a tragic epitaph...
Joseph Stalin was liquidated last week by the common fate of all men. The event was so big that only the simplest words could form his epitaph: he was the most powerful man of his time-the most feared and hated. He might have boasted in the words of the Roman song honoring Emperor Aurelian...
...epitaph would indicate, Michelangelo Buonarroti was accepted by his contemporaries as almost superhuman. Most biographers, surveying the awesome remains of Michelangelo's genius, have decided that his contemporaries were right. Yet by doing more than human honor to the man, history has generally done less than human justice to his real achievement...