Word: graveyard
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Humphrey's darkly memorable earlier book unraveled the archetypal family quadrangle. The Ordways also is a family saga; it, too, is set in an East Texas small town and begins in a graveyard. But there the resemblance ends. This graveyard is bustling with life, for no Ordway has died in 35 years; it is annual Graveyard Working Day, and the whole enormous clan has come to gether for piety and picnicking...
Dietz used the plan at various public hearings to demonstrate what he suggested could be done to the area. The plan also envisions the construction of a path through the graveyard at Church St. and Mass. Ave., as a shortcut to the Square...
...death before it was officially announced to the public, took the unprecedented step of requesting Parliament to accord her former Prime Minister a state fu neral, the first such tribute to a commoner since Gladstone's death in 1898. Churchill will be buried in a tranquil Oxfordshire graveyard beside his parents: Lord Randolph Churchill and his beautiful American wife, Jennie Jerome...
...have just pushed aside, I confess with mounting distaste, a pile of Kennedyana on which I had been browsing, Graveyard, or memorial, prose is among the least edifying and least pleasing forms of human composition. There is a prevailing flavor of syrupy insincerity, an affectation of wholehearted truthfulness, amounting to the worst kind of deception, which sickens as it surfeits...
Strong Music. The life that stirs in his lines-even in the rare love poems or the many graveyard tributes to the dead-often seems a creation of the proud will, not the passions. But for the careful ear there is strong music, cool and casually regular. Gregory is a highly professional craftsman who has chosen to work mostly in silver and pewter and dull bronze, rarely in gold. His muse is a plain girl, easily overlooked in flashy company-but the eye wanders back to her, for she has perfect skin, fine bones, a direct, grey gaze...