Word: graving
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...Agassiz Theater production of Alben Berg's Lulu is a grave disappointment. Berg's haunting psychodrama about a troubled woman and the people who terrorize her loses all its force in a production which could repel even the most serious of campus opera buffs...
...some 18,000 teachers of Russian in Poland, for instance, compared with just 4,000 for all other foreign languages combined. Russian instructors there and in Hungary have been encouraged to learn English, German and other Western languages, but few seem eager to make the switch. "This is a grave crisis for me," says Gabriella Udvarheyli, 34, a Russian teacher in Budapest. "All those years of study and, suddenly, my subject is swept aside...
Half a century later, Poland is rushing toward democracy, and officials are looking at the 50th anniversary of his death as a fitting day for a homecoming. During his visit to Washington last week, Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki visited Paderewski's grave in Arlington Cemetery. Whenever his bones are returned, his heart will remain in the U.S. -- literally. Following family wishes, the musician's heart has been enshrined since 1986 at Our Lady of Czestochowa Shrine in Doylestown, Pa., and there it shall stay...
...corner lies a new grave, the bare earthen mound not yet pounded flat by rain. A miniature Christmas tree, a few cheap ornaments clinging to its brown branches, adorns the tomb. Two tiny Santas in plastic bags, a mud- spattered price tag still attached, poke up out of the dirt. No plaque marks this resting place, perhaps betraying a neglect born of the longing to forget...
Arends knew the grave responsibility of the job, had heard rumors about the gut-wrenching life of a manager, and did not take the offer lightly...