Word: epitaphs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fling, their romantic moments sometimes seem mildly necromantic. The script, in any case, is guaranteed to make actors age rapidly. Almost every line in the picture ("I call this cocktail a bikini-there's not much to it but it hits the right spots") might serve as an epitaph for laughter. As for the plot-the usual prefab fable about life in a California housing project-it is certain to make audiences respond with a ho-ho-ho-hum. Hope, a bestselling spicy storyteller, undertakes to investigate the sexual habits of the suburban female. Turner, a typical suburban female...
...best and the worst of a generation that has not yet died out can be summed up in an epitaph for Sumner Welles: he was a gentleman. A career diplomat, for ten years Roosevelt's Under Secretary of State, Welles was the very prototype of the suave, dignified and urbane public official. In a profession in which respect is everything, he maintained an impeccablbe record in the eyes of his colleagues...
...Joseph P. Kennedy sent specialists from the East. Last week Marion Davies died, aged 61. Some 30 years earlier on the lot at MG-M, after answering an interrupting phone call from Pops, she had turned smiling to a friend and stuttered out a line that could be her epitaph: "H-h-h-hearst come, H-h-h-hearst served...
Above all. Learned Hand was a passionate admirer and defender of liberty. In 1950, his opinion upholding the Smith Act conviction of eleven top U.S. Communists was hailed as a legal milestone. Perhaps his true epitaph can be found in his own words, delivered to 150,000 newly naturalized Americans in Central Park in 1944: "The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty remembers that not even a sparrow falls...
Candy-Man. The most memorable of the Southern stories are harsher. There is Candy-Man Beechum, the epitaph to a huge Negro mule skinner's quirky heroism. Loping happily along to visit his Saturday-night girl, Candy-Man is shot down by a deputy, just because the deputy feels like it. Candy-Man says that the deputy shouldn't have done that. The deputy says to shut up or he will pull out his gun again and hurry Candy-Man along. "If that's the way it's to be," the dying man says back...