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...Requiem...
...stars of death stood over us./ And Russia, guiltless, beloved, writhed/ under the crunch of bloodstained boots,/ under the wheels of Black Marias." So wrote Anna Akhmatova, perhaps Russia's finest woman poet, in Requiem, a moving testimony to those who kept vigils outside prison gates for loved ones swept away in the Stalinist reign of terror. Written between 1935 and 1940, the poem was not officially published in full until last year...
...wasn't exactly what Akhmatova had in mind. In the Epilogue to Requiem, she wrote: "And if my country ever should assent/ to casting in my name a monument,/ I should be proud to have my memory graced,/ but only if the monument be placed/ . . . here, where I endured three hundred hours/ in line before the implacable iron bars...
POTSDAM, N.Y.--Call off the requiem. Reroute those flowers headed for the family plot...
Washington and Denver go this way and that way to Super Bowl XXII. -- Requiem for Holmes. -- Mandingo and the Greek...