Word: flame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have been Robert F. Kennedy's 43rd birthday, his brother Ted brought his own and the slain Senator's family to pray and leave flowers. Two days later, on the fifth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's death in Dallas, the family returned to visit the flame-lit grave a little farther up the hill. In New York, Mrs. Aristotle Onassis took John and Caroline Kennedy to a special Mass for their father-one of many such memorial services across the country...
...walked back up Mass Ave his mind played with the delightful image of City Hall exploding, belching yellow-orange-black flame-smoke from its windows, bloating at its middle, and then crumbling to the ground...
Silone now lives in Rome, nurturing his aversion to politics, as well as rewriting and reissuing his novels. To ex-Communists and younger, unencumbered New Leftists, he is a veteran saint of the revolution for social justice and individual dignity. Yet, as keeper of the flame, Silone is an exceedingly human presence: Columnist Murray Kempton once described him as looking and talking like a tobacconist...
...flame may his glory in that other place...
...that open this week. The government, after crushing the demonstrators, began rounding up student leaders. On the day following la noche triste, the International Olympic Committee decided that the games will go on, since "we have been assured that nothing will interfere with the peaceful entry of the Olympic flame, nor with the competitions that follow." Considering the students' renewed anger, that could turn out to be a hollow guarantee...