Word: epitaphs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grief for the Academician and the former street singer was nationwide-the French only bury their politicians but mourn their artists. With the deaths of Piaf and Cocteau, France had been robbed of two incomparable figures, whose joint epitaph might well be Piaf's defiant song, Je ne regrette rien...
...Unwanted Epitaph. The U.S.'s young President, said Dirksen, who is 67, "calls this treaty a first step. I want to take a first step, Mr. President. I am not a young man. One of my age thinks about his destiny a little. I should not like to have written on my tombstone, 'He knew what happened at Hiroshima, but he did not take a first step...
...reads nothing in public. He was recently spotted in a Moscow gastronom buying vodka while his wife Galina pleaded: "You've had too much. It's bad for you. Come home." But drunk or sober, Evtushenko has yet to recant the verse that could well be his epitaph...
...Author of Let No Man Write My Epitaph...
...same Americans taking off for a weekend clear across the continent. He never saw a junior executive in a glass-caged office, agreeing, or the same junior executive at a school board meeting, disagreeing. He never saw people living and dying under the care of one big organization, their epitaph a punch card. And he did not hear people insisting urgently on the need to be themselves in the midst of impersonal bigness...