Word: pyre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the final curtain fell, with Ivan Khovansky murdered and his son Prince Andrei, zealot Marfa and the entire sect of Old Believers singing a resounding funeral dirge around a pyre they had built for themselves, first-nighters were still shaky on plot details. But critics and audience were agreed that they had been introduced to three hours of blood-Warm music which, with familiarity, might become as well liked as Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov...
...truck, sleigh, and on horseback, Nurse Wilson had plowed through deep snowdrifts, was finally guided into the Indian camp by the smoke of a funeral pyre that signaled another death that day. The only visible signs of life were half-starved, whimpering dogs and wisps of smoke curling from tent tops. Inside the infested canvas tepees and unchinked log shelters, Miss Wilson's flashlight picked out three acutely ill Indians. Two of the victims had almost complete membranes covering their throats, slowly choking them to death. The third had just had a similar membrane removed by another Indian...