Word: mausoleum
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...Americans who knew the facts, Moscow seemed eerily normal. Newspapers kept complaining about poor food production, couples on crowded dance floors kept doing their bunny hug and wishing they could find out something about the twist, soldiers with their girls wandered to the Lenin mausoleum to hear the Kremlin bells toll midnight...
...young lovers strolled arm in arm into Death's own mausoleum. "The urn can be our cup of passion," said the young woman joyfully, "and the ashes will make a carpet for love...
After the end of the world, the lovers emerge from the mausoleum to find a universe cleansed. "The hour will come when you will ripen and burst, and we shall harvest the fruits of our love," the young man says. "A trace of us will remain, etched in flesh, and nothing more eternal will ever be built more proudly or more boldly than the flesh of our flesh perfumed with...
...only flaw in the Bennett legend is that he did not get the mausoleum he wanted. This was to be a statue, 200 feet high, in the shape of an owl (Bennett liked owls). It was to be far grander than Grant's tomb on Riverside Drive (Bennett did not like Grant). But Architect Stanford White, who was supposed to design the bird, got himself shot by Harry Thaw. Bennett lost interest, and Manhattan lost...
Boston is moribund. Sad, but true, the better part of Boston lies in the past. The city is a mausoleum -- mighty and serene. One could spend hours reciting the mortuary charms of its innumerable cemeteries, with their illustrious dead, which dot the city's main sections as well as its periphery. The flight of industry to the South, the corruption of local politics, and the exodus of the Best People into the suburbs has decisively doomed Boston. But the ashes of a greatness that is gone remain to beguile and delight the summer visitor...