Word: epitaphs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chimes & Symbols. Like many another poet, Frost wrote his own epitaph...
...were an epitaph to be my story...
...characters are all broadly comic, or meant to be (why is it that, ever since Dickens, the English have always thought that anything said in Cockney is screamingly funny?), but that, to be sure, only emphasizes the subtlety of Jimson. "Michaelangelo, Blake--you're one on them" is the epitaph that Nosy, Gully's disciple, suggests at the movie's end, but Jimson has always had a more realistic idea of his own worth, and he responds with...
...were no longer at issue, and the world had come to judge her not by her causes but by her indefatigable heart and her humanity. The United Nations, in a rare unity, hushed its debates for a minute in her honor, and her devoted friend Adlai Stevenson spoke her epitaph: "Her glow had warmed the world." The three Presidents who had succeeded her husband in office were at the graveside as she was buried beside Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the rose garden at Hyde Park...
...Cornell) to revel in Chekhov's rich feminine roles. Olga played Masha in the first production of The Three Sisters, in 1901, and married the playwright three years before his death at 44. If the play provided Chekhov with a wife, its ending also serves as his best epitaph: "The music plays so gaily and so joyfully, and it seems that in a little while we shall know why we live and why we suffer. If we only knew! If we only knew...