Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Baltimore, there was even more melancholy vandalism. Upon a recent midnight dreary, someone entered the Westminster Presbyterian Church graveyard and pried an 18-in. circular bronze medallion sculpture of Edgar Allan Poe's head from the shaft marking his grave. Stéphane Mallarmé was being too optimistic when he wrote The Tomb of Edgar Poe: "Let this granite at least forever be a boundary/To the foul flights of scattered blasphemy in the future...
...Belgrade with President Tito, lunch with Queen Elizabeth, and briefly visit Prime Minister Edward Heath outside London. They will see Pope Paul VI at the Vatican, spend a night with Italian President Giuseppe Saragat, visit Spain's Francisco Franco in Madrid. Before flying home, the Nixons will seek grave sites of ancestors in the Irish countryside southwest of Dublin. Perhaps the biggest symbolic point of the trip is that it takes the President in and near the ancient regions where Western culture has its roots, and where U.S. security interests are so seriously at stake...
This was exactly the point on which the Finance Committee's ranking Republican, John Williams of Delaware, expertly probed for and found grave weaknesses. Williams shocked his colleagues by producing figures assembled by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare at his request. They showed that total state-federal assistance to an FAP-eligible family (food stamps, Medicaid, public housing) could in several states add up to more than $6,000 yearly, none of it subject to income or Social Security taxes. That is more than many self-supporting families earn...
...interpretation states, "It is implicit in the language of the Statement ... that intense personal harassment of such a character as to amount to grave disrespect for the dignity of others be regarded as an unacceptable violation of the personal rights on which the University is based...
...what might yet be. Mailer might lead you to witness an electrocution where God in a key moment of fine jest caused the power lines to fail; Styron would not once think of God permitting a botched execution, though he might include Him among the later mourners at the grave: probably He would be solemn and sigh...