Word: epitaphs
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...evolutionary biologist said if he were to request an epitaph after his death, it would read: "Tried to recover the humanistic tradition of writing science for the non- scientist as noble...
...Republicans, including the President, are already back in the gutter, but Bush should salvage his dignity by stepping away. It is still within the President's power to write his own epitaph as a decent man who tried his best, a legacy he could squander if he continues the mudslinging when all is lost...
...paragraph read: "The immortal Yeats wrote, 'Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with.' As usual," Hart concluded, "Yeats put it right. A man would be a fool to take his luck for granted." Thus, in his own words, the fallen candidate's political epitaph: Gary Hart -- fool...
...like scars cut edgewise across his knuckles, and the skin around his throat is mottled with burn marks from the time he put a match to an aerosol can in a street fight. Adolpho has seen five friends die in drug wars. Each time a child is killed, his epitaph is added to the graffiti murals adorning the walls of north Camden's vacant lots. "It can happen at any time to anybody," Adolpho says. "It can happen to me, it can happen to you and it can happen right...
...Munch could have painted. One day that scream will be commemorated with a plaque, he writes, "and people will walk past it and remember. And they will think: This was the last scream they screamed before they left organized labor." If Geoghegan is right, his book is an eloquent epitaph...