Word: graveyard
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...Decay: The theme of Harvard as a kind of graveyard, a might mausoleum runs through Cunliffe's piece as a leitmotif. He quotes a friend as predicting that Harvard may yet come to be called "the forest Lawn of the East Coast." He goes on: "the Lampoon used to be a funny magazine. Now it's like the embalmers' Monthly...
Send Me No Flowers (by Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore) is one more of those popular comedies that hang a lot of baby jests around a papa joke, and that drive a rachitic bit of plot literally to the graveyard. David Wayne is a fervent hypochondriac who, listening in on his doctor's phone call about a doomed patient, concludes it is he who is doomed and makes wheelchair preparations for dying, death and burial. When this misunderstanding is cleared up, a new misunderstanding is quickly brewed: now Nancy Olson, Wayne's pretty wife, decides that...
...Service men trailed unhappily behind. The President-elect peered through the windshield wipers at white-faced Herefords blinking in the headlights, and the Vice President-elect reported their whereabouts to the ranch house over his radiotelephone ("We're down here by Grandpop's house, near the old graveyard...
...policy, they said, was a buildup for preventive war, which would leave its victors, at best, "emperors over the graveyard of civilization." Moreover, said the two bachelors, "the talents of women are encouraged and utilized to a much greater extent in the Soviet Union than in the U.S. We feel that this enriches Soviet society and makes Soviet women more desirable as mates...
...Gazebo (Avon; M-G-M), Hollywood's reconstruction of the Broadway comedy hit, is a fairly successful piece of graveyard humor. The corpse is provided by a wildly improbable murderer (Glenn Ford), a young Milquetoast who writes and directs TV whodunits, and who takes a potshot one night at a particularly unpleasant blackmailer. When the whodunist sees his first real-life cadaver, he almost faints. When he wraps the body in a plastic tarpaulin, the plastic tears. When he wraps it in a shower curtain and goes to bury it in the fresh foundation of a new gazebo (summerhouse...