Word: epitaphs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visited New York four years ago- already at death's door, already moth-frail like "a fever-wasted child; but her eyes as lively as the diamonds in her ears. She really did no more than haunt the dinner table." No writer could ask for a better epitaph than Wescott's use of a line from one of her own characters: "Where the storyteller is loyal, eternally and unswervingly loyal to the story, there, in the end, silence will speak...
...long run it is no easier to compare poets with poets than it is to compare peaches with blueberries. The epitaph that Cummings probably would have liked best had nothing to do with the critical ranking of poets. It was spoken by Fellow Poet Archibald MacLeish: "There are very few people who deserve the word poet. Cummings was one of them...
With each story came the desperate plea to wire money, and eventually, although Esquire paid only $250 to $350 a story, enough was wired so that years later, Fitzgerald's daughter Scottie remembered Pat Hobby fondly enough to speak his epitaph. "He sent me to Vassar," she said, saying...
...antimony to all three." McCord's answer was a simple "Iron stand you." To the 35% of Harvard alumni who had never heeded his call, McCord one year hopefully anticipated the day when he could write to them a couplet he originally composed as an Epitaph for a Waiter...
...nation thought it saw a man being destroyed. He was accused of stealing $370.000 from the members of his International Brotherhood of Teamsters, of betraying his friends and of robbing a friend's widow. Robert F. Kennedy, then the Senate committee's chief counsel, wrote an early epitaph: "He was dead...