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Britain's aging (78) Author E. M. Forster spoke out to the London Magazine on the subject of aging: "I reserve the right to be frightened at the thought of my own death and to mourn the deaths of those whom I have loved or haven't even known. The present century has become too curt over bereavement just as the 19th century was too expansive over it." Who really knew how to mourn? "The Greeks. They wept, they recovered, they recalled." What is old age? "Both by its practitioners and by its observers, it is approached...
...only were Hungarians forbidden to demonstrate; they were forbidden to mourn. They were warned not to wear arm bands or to display candles in their windows. Secret police even knocked on the doors of birthday parties. Heavy chains were hung across the gate of the Magyarovar grave site of fallen Freedom Fighters. All Budapest dared to do was to boycott all cafés, cinemas and places of entertainment...
...fires of hate,'' intoned Mississippi's Senator James Oliver Eastland. Alabama's Governor James Elisha ("Kissin' Jim'') Folsom pledged that he would disband Alabama's National Guard before he would let Eisenhower order it into federal service. "We still mourn the destruction of Hungary," said Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge, going his colleague, Dick Russell, one better. "Now the South is threatened by the President of the U.S. using tanks and troops in the streets of Little Rock. I wish I could cast one vote for impeachment right...
...those slightly windy fall days when the whole natural process is somewhat uncertain--that folk music was dead. The oral tradition, our Jeremiah confided, was no more. And the ubiquitous tape recorders of the Lomax clan have succeeded only in attracting the curious and such aesthetes as might otherwise "mourn the Medieval grace of iron clothing...
...which not only rendered impossible Napoleon's invasion of England, but made inevitable England's invasion of France. "Trajalgar was the prelude to Waterloo," concludes Maine, and in memory of it, "French and English sailors to this day wear a black cravat round their necks; the latter mourn for their leader who fell in the thick of the fight, and the former mourn for their shattered illusions...