Word: epitaphs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shares his billing with such guest performers as Singers Bobby Darin and Paul Anka while he works his beat on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip. Boyish-looking and hyper-hip, he is apparently convinced that murder can be fun. The show may have to go some to avoid the epitaph: "Quoth the ratings, nevermore...
...ready to pray with him, and to wonder why a man like Ehrenburg, who could swear so eloquently against everything that is ridiculous in sacred Soviet institutions, should have been a willing Communist straight man for the last 30 years. Perhaps the answer lies in Ehrenburg's epitaph for his hero: "Rest in peace, poor Roitschwantz! You will not dream any longer of justice, or of a piece of sausage." Ehrenburg may simply have settled for the piece of sausage...
...that "Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting, and it seems drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted." Anne outlived him by seven years, and asked to be buried in the same grave, but the authorities dared not flout Shakespeare's doggerel epitaph...
...Ready Epitaph. Neo-Elizabethan Durrell leads a ruminative life these days in his four-room, stone peasant house in the south of France, near Nimes. After a full morning at the typewriter, he putters about building a stone wall, or shoots an occasional game bird, or strums a guitar to his own bawdy lyrics. A veteran of two stormy marriages, he looks forward to the summer visits of his ten-and 20-year-old daughters, who live in England. He is still content with the epitaph he once proposed for himself: "I intend to die young and have the following...
...invitation to be a delegate to the Los Angeles convention in July (he will attend as an observer). "I think my district will be represented in the convention by the president of a corsetmakers' union," he said wryly. "And I might add that this is not exactly the epitaph on my political career that I had hoped for." Then he hurriedly added that he did not mean "epitaph" as it sounded. As for the rest of the field, Adlai had only kind words: "I think that any of the Democratic candidates being mentioned would beat Nixon. My own candidacy...