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...unusual procession also gave many Muscovites their first closeup of their own bigwigs, usually only to be seen high atop Lenin's tomb. Unrehearsed and unexpectedly, there was loud applause for the cars of the U.S. and British ambassadors as they passed...
Three days and several parties later, New York Times Critic Harvey Breit telephoned him at his hotel. "He seemed bad," Breit recalls. "I wanted to say, 'You sound as though from the tomb.' I didn...
...message is antimili-tarism (the Communists condemned the text in 1951 as too "unpolitical"). In a stunning setting of blocks and planes, Lucullus faces a jury of five pale shades: courtesan, teacher, baker, farmer and fishwife. His character witnesses are stone-relief figures from the frieze that decorates his tomb...
...voice is a voice from the tomb...
...ship was found last month, in a brick tomb of its own, near the pyramids in the necropolis at Sakkara. It is less than half as long as the ship of Cheops (whose pyramid is also the biggest), and its wood is badly decayed. But it has all the main features of later soul ships. On its deck is a cabin to shelter the soul of the dead Pharaoh. Pottery vessels hold food and drink for his royal feasts, and plates and eating utensils are ready for his use. The ship's keel is accurately pointed parallel...