Word: epitaphed
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...seem to matter so much. I think the best thing to say about Jonathan Kozol's little piece of satanism is that he has given his people wonderful names: Brubeck, Euclid, Castrato. The poetry in the issue is almost uniformly hard to remember. In the best of the lot, Epitaph for a Young Athlete, F. L. Seidel clothes his single small joke in pretentious language. While the only image of David Ferry's The Late Hour Poem is more ludicrous than striking, Nina Castelli's The Coquette concludes, with some truth for the poem, "What use to anyone...
...month ago an oldtimer to the National Hereford Congress in Tucson looked at his fellow cattlemen, most of them dressed in grey flannels rather than in big hats and boots, and pronounced an epitaph on an age: "The cowpuncher of olden days is the cardpuncher of today. We are entering the I.B.M. era of cattle production...
...camaraderie and conviviality knew no bounds. But his heart and kidneys did. One day last week he checked into a Manhattan hospital. He suffered from nephritis, plus severe anemia. Four days later he had an internal hemorrhage, died at 60. The Front Page, of course, provided a fine epitaph: "I'm no stuffed shirt writing peanut ads. God damn it-I'm a newspaperman...
...toast to Lydia E. Pinkham), followed by an Upmann cigar and an evening of sparkling conversation. In his robust way, he loved America, once said: "As an American I naturally spend most of my time laughing." He also loved his life, which he summed up in a famous epitaph for himself: "If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thoughts to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl...
...rich, usually managed to weave a kind of verbal magic that seems today beyond O'Hara's means. In fact, O'Hara's entire account of the "aristocratic" Joe Chapin and his existence at No. 10 North Frederick is a remorselessly endless annotation of an epitaph to that depressing character called Clive...