Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Beowulf epic has once again risen from its grave; but even the Christians knew better than to resurrect the dead more than once. Still not content, Gardner spices his novel with allusions to Arthurian legend. And to all this he adds his own version of that classic Faulknerian tale of the decay of the proud and respected Compson family. It is all done in the same battered, albeit rigid, multi-consciousness point of view...
...Merhige handed down a sharply worded ruling that found the state's prison officials guilty of "grave disregard of constitutional guarantees." This time he cited specific illegal actions: bread-and-water diets, arbitrary use of tear gas, extended periods of solitary confinement, placing prisoners naked in a hot, roach-infested cell, and taping, chaining or handcuffing inmates to cell bars. The monetary award reflected the loss of prison pay through unconstitutional solitary confinement, plus what Merhige called "reasonable sums for pain and suffering...
...baby's body found and identified by skull, hair, teeth, etc., in woods on Hope-well-Mount Rose road. Killed by a blow on head. . . I feel strangely a sense of peace-not peace, but an end to restlessness, a finality, as though I were sleeping in a grave...
...dead were buried in a common grave. There was one additional casualty when mourning relatives discovered a boy picking the pockets of the victims and pummeled him to death. Nigerian authorities hoped that the crash -and two days later the near crash of a chartered Ethiopian Airlines jet whose pilot, trying to land at Lagos airport, clipped the top of a tree-might dissuade some of the 30,000 Nigerian Moslems who annually make the hadj to Mecca. The shuttle is a drain on the country's foreign currency reserves. Beyond that, the government suspects that some Moslems...
...real life as well as in countless novels, plays and films, the arrival of a priest to administer the Roman Catholic sacrament of extreme unction has long had an ominous meaning: the patient was virtually given up for dead. Those whose condition was not in fact so grave could be given a nasty turn by the sight of the priest with his vial of holy oil. Now Pope Paul VI has changed all that. The sacrament, called "the anointing of the sick" since Vatican II, will hereafter be used not only for those who are in imminent danger of death...