Word: epitaphed
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...that message, Khomeini admitted that he felt "ashamed in front of such a great nation" for what he was doing. But "in view of the opinion of all high-ranking political and military experts," he said, a cease-fire was "in the interest of the revolution." In a chilling epitaph for the hundreds of thousands of war dead, he declared that the conflict had been "good for those whose children were martyred...
...rubble of old realms has teased and provoked imaginations. In the 18th century, a visit to Rome inspired Gibbon to write an enduring history of imperial decline. Romantic poets found the gloom and doom of antiquity irresistible. Envisioning an ancient toppled monument in a barren desert, Shelley conceived an epitaph that was both ironic and admonitory: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:/ Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" In a softer temper, Poe allowed the face of a beautiful woman to transport him back in time "To the glory that was Greece,/ And the grandeur that...
Indeed, Hart said Tuesday that if he could choose his epitaph, it would be, "He educated his people." He wasn't talking about the need to spend more money on the public school system. He was referring to how "the President himself must become the nation's first teacher to help our people understand some very tough problems and how together we can solve them." Such are noble sentiments, no doubt. Before Gary Hart can teach us anything, though, he needs to learn a few lessons himself...
...Yorker came up with another kind of answer, or perhaps just an epitaph. It was a bedraggled parrot that a policeman found in Manhattan in November of 1929. "More margin!" the bird squawked, in echo of some desperate stockbroker's greedy injunction to the bird's vanished master in that already vanished era. "More margin...
...fatal interdependence provides the subject of this piercing first novel. Author Robert Boswell smoothly oscillates from third to first person, giving the principals a chance to confess and dream. The voices are wholly convincing, and Boswell's apercus provide psychological criticism, as when Edward unconsciously utters his own epitaph: "No one wants to hear about a good man being good. It's the failings people want to hear." Wise father...