Word: epitaphed
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Stop writing Ali's epitaph; he does not belong to the ages. He projects infinite variety and has exhausted only one of his talents. Win or lose, for millions he's a champ...
...translations of Shakespeare's tragedies be spent to help prisoners in the Gulag. When prison regulations eased after Stalin's death, a flood of letters arrived from strangers in the camps, thanking him for the succor of his poetry. Ivinskaya has provided what might be his epitaph, in the first lines of a Pasternak poem that remains unpublished in Russia...
...bitterly describes it, was an unbroken stretch of umbrella forest only two generations ago. Since then the elephants, condemned to death by overcrowding, have eaten much of the Tsavo down to bare laterite earth. "Where they make a desert, they call it peace"-the ancient Roman epigram is the epitaph to East Africa's conservation policy...
BRONX, N.Y.--Harvard basketball coach Frank McLaughlin grew up near Woodlawn Cemetery here in the Bronx, and after the first half of Saturday night's game with Fordham it looked as though his cagers would leave the Rams with the epitaph "Fordham Basketball--R.I.P." Instead it was the Crimson that rolled over and played dead, giving up a 39-29 halftime lead to lose the game...
...David's epitaph on that relationship is as cold as a mirror: "You reach the point of emotional bankruptcy; the only thing you can do is walk away from it." Such bankruptcy is a frequent emotion of his characters; they too walk away?from spying, from each other, sometimes from life itself. But his more successful operatives are those who somehow manage to retain a human, familial touch and a sense of the land. This reflects Cornwell's present state of mind. For a decade, England has taken more than 80% of his income. Yet, tempted to seek overseas...