Word: tombs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...year-old Nizam has never traveled out of India, has left his domain only twice in the past 15 years-once to Delhi and once to Calcutta. Now he ventures out of his palace only on two occasions: each afternoon at 4:20 he visits his mother's tomb, every Friday he prays at a public mosque...
Four from Hades. The lowest zone, next the floor, is Hades, where lie the sepulchers of Lorenzo and Giuliano de Medici (they were to be flanked by four figures representing the rivers of Hades, which Michelangelo never got around to). Lorenzo's tomb supports the famed outstretched figures of Dawn and Dusk, and atop Giuliano's sprawl Day and Night. Symbolizing earthly life, the stone nudes lie heavy as lead...
...From womb to tomb" was the British phrase for it. When Sir William Beveridge (in 1942) put out his famous plan,* its socialistic scheme for insurance and medical care was sponsored by a Conservative-led coalition government. Last week, under the more appropriate aegis of the Labor government, a National Health Service Act initiated by the Beveridge Report went into effect. For every man, woman & child in the United Kingdom, all medical care would be free, in a Socialist sense (paid out of taxes): doctors' and dentists' services, drugs, hospital beds, eyeglasses, artificial legs...
Among the old masterpieces from Germany now touring the U.S. (last week they were in Philadelphia) was one painting that was almost out of place, it looked so modern. It was a scene bathed in sickly torchlight, chill as a tomb, still as death-a stark and somber painting called Saint Sebastian Mourned by Saint Irene. To most gallerygoers the name under it-Georges de la Tour-meant nothing...
Some of Swift's best letters and politer verses are included in this volume, and so is the proud Latin epitaph that he wrote for his tomb: ". . . ubi saeva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare nequit; abi viator et imitare si poteris strenuum pro virili libertatis vindicem . . ." W. B. Yeats, nearly 200 years later gave this inscription a great translation...