Word: mausoleum
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Died. Wieland Wagner, 49, grandson of Composer Richard and avantgarde opera designer; of sarcoidosis; in Munich. "I was born in a mausoleum," Wieland once said, referring to Bayreuth, where Grossvater Wagner had built his own shrine, and he lost not a moment in "clearing 80 years of Kitsch off the stage" when he was made co-director of the family-run Bayreuth Festival in 1951. He began by throwing out all the traditional trappings-animal skins, horned helmets, swan boats and ponderous sets-replacing them with simple robes and stark, dimly lit slabs designed to evoke modern psychological drama...
...graduation gift from her parents. As History Major Lynda told newsmen on arrival, her aim was "to get to know your country." To this end, Ambassador Duke's pretty wife Robin shepherded her on visits to Madrid's Royal Palace, the Alcazar in Toledo, the palace and mausoleum at Escorial. Wherever she went, the President's daughter displayed unflagging curiosity. Didn't King Philip II have four wives? Why wasn't Philip V buried at Escorial? How come Isabel II is en tombed in the row reserved for kings...
...rare enough tc raise hopeful questions about Donleavy's future as a writer. In Ginger Man, he wrote an irresistible Dublin farce; in A Singular Man, he created a fantasy figure of power, wealth and charm, who could do everything but was concerned mainly with building a mausoleum to defeat death. In Mr. S, he has created a man who can do nothing but accept death. S, at a fair guess, stands for "singular," and in his singularity lies man's doom. Donleavy is a natural comedian who achieves his black effects by means as economical as those...
...Communist faithful is the Lenin Tomb in Red Square. Every day, thousands of visitors walk silently past the glass and granite crypt, stare reverently at the dimly lit, waxy-looking corpse guarded by rigid soldiers, then file back into the sunlight. Last week Soviet officials announced that the mausoleum would be closed for the next two months. "Normal repairs," was the explanation. But on what-or whom...
...others: the pyramids of Egypt, the gardens of Semiramis at Babylon, the statue of the Olympian Zeus by Phidias, the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes and the Pharos (lighthouse) at Alexandria. In some listings, the Walls of Babylon are substituted for the Pharos...