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People in Pushkin's time were undoubtedly impressed by such Baroque elements of horror as waxen images, howling mastiffs, voices from the tomb, and winking corpses. Today's movie audiences, a comparatively cynical lot, realize that these are simply props and studio effects. Nevertheless, when they turn up in "The Queen of Spades," they are done well enough to cause several genuine shudders...
Disturbed by popular demonstrations against him, India's multimillionaire Nizam of Hyderabad voluntarily gave up his royal right to have the public roads cleared during his afternoon drive to his mother's tomb...
Last Sunday evening Van Fleet laid a wreath on the unknown warrior's tomb in Athens. Standing at military salute, he recited a poem he had written as a last tribute to the Greek soldier...
Sometimes things get so simple that they stop being history. Brooding over the tomb of Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy, in Gloucester's handsome cathedral, McKenney drops into a palsy-walsy reverie: "Poor old Robert. I have always wondered why they called him Curthose. Maybe his stockings kept slipping down, the way mine did in the sixth grade?" When dealing, with the world of here & now, Author McKenney drops into a dear-diary style more suggestive of Anita Loos's Lorelei Lee than of an ex-staff writer of the New Masses. "In fact, I think leaving debris...
...Rome last week, Holy Year pilgrims visiting St. Peter's were startled to hear organ music grumbling up through gratings in the marble floor. One awed pilgrim exclaimed: "It comes right from the tomb of St. Peter...