Word: graved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dead Man's Door. The celebration of the funeral usually begins with some sort of dance, drama or procession. The Dahomeans of West Africa dance with the corpse before they throw it in the grave...
...Burma, some of the floats and effigies paraded to the burning ground are so huge that 75 men are required to carry them. In Rumania, at the funeral of a girl of marriageable age, a young man volunteers to be her bridegroom, and he walks with her to the grave as if to the altar...
Four and a half pounds of such grave information, adorned with floral displays of sociological prose ("Grieving is a sense of reaction with motor implications"), are assembled in this handy encyclopedia of death. Financed by the National Funeral Directors Association, the book may indeed make one of the more significant contributions to the U.S. death industry since the invention of Frederick & Trump's Corpse Cooler. It goes a long way toward reconciling its readers to the sentimental (and expensive) horrors of the usual U.S. funeral. The rest of the world, it seems, is not much better...
...have we, as we are outnumbered 100 to 1. Even so, I have never seen a European here vent childlike emotions on a small native child. That such a thing can occur in the U.S.A. is sufficient evidence of the immaturity of the people concerned to cause us grave doubts of the fitness of the U.S.A. to be a bulwark against Communism...
Having lived in Spain in the mid-'50s. Author Lobsenz, 28, knows something of the parched, granitic harshness of the Spanish earth and the grave pride and passion of the Spaniard, and he conveys these with authority. Unfortunately, he lacks all control over his plot, and he makes most of his points by bending a reader's ear till it aches. After a flurry of melodrama, Vangel ends up with a whole new set of values. Here they are: "I would like to repeal suffrage for women. I would like to end all war. I would like...