Word: epitaphed
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Senior Michael Ryan, Harvard's five-man, provided the epitaph for Brown. "The technique that Harry [Parker] inculcates us with allowed in to keep our rowing at a very consistent level, which was better than Brown could do in Saturday's conditions...
...during the past few months, displaying a wooden sign warning against the perils of nuclear Armageddon, he picketed the White House. According to Bauer, one of Mayer's favorite quotations was: "We're flawed, bungling human beings incapable of making clear, rational decisions." It is an appropriate epitaph for a flawed, ramshackle life that concluded with a bungled, irrational gesture...
Excerpt from a 1977 press conference with Carson: Q. What would you like your epitaph to be? A. I'll be right back. -By Jay Cocks. Reported by Peter Ainslie/New York and Russell Leavitt/ Los Angeles
...pray your epitaph for American land ("Going, Going . ..") applies instead to Secretary Watt's Government career...
...this is not just an appealing character speaking his own epitaph; it is Henry Fonda's annunciation as an actor, that moment when he began to shed the first impression he had made in films like The Farmer Takes a Wife-that of a shy, likable but lightweight piece of homespun-and take on the raiment of authority. Looking back now, we see that there was no one else who could have played Tom Joad, no one else who could do what Fonda did-drain the sentiment and literariness out of that speech with his drawling directness...