Word: urn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bearing charts, they pad quietly down the halls in dark suits, queue up at the big coffee urn near the door and settle in around the long table by 8:30 a.m. "All right, gentlemen, let's start," shouts Treasury Secretary William Simon, the chairman, who still has a whiff of the Wall Street buccaneer about him. For the next 15 or 30 minutes they take the economic pulse all the way from the condition of the winter-wheat crop (better than expected) to the state of mind of Teamster Top Dog Frank Fitzsimmons (angry over...
Chou's body was taken in a white hearse to the Papaoshan (Hill of Eight Treasures) Cemetery, in Peking's western suburbs, to be cremated. Nearly a million people lined the route. Then the red lacquer urn containing the ashes was displayed for three days in the Working People's Palace of Culture, the former Exalted Temple used by China's emperors to pray to their ancestors...
Synoptic Vision. Cavafy possessed that power. With a pagan selection of detail-the gaze of an eye, the tilt of a head -he evokes the ardor of youthful flesh as tunelessly as does a frieze on a Grecian urn. Indeed, Cavafy introduces the shapers of the ancient world-the Ptolemies, Julius Caesar, Marc Antony-as if they were embarking on their adventures this very day. Simultaneously, he moves contemporary people backward into the total stillness of history so that they seem to have been formed in the ruins of Pompeii. Except for Yeats, no modern poet has surpassed Cavafy...
...Viet Nam's war is an endless litany of abstract events that one believes but never sees, Cambodia's five-year war is an immediate, palpable, personal experience. Take a left Urn at the airport, and five kilometers later you are right at the front lines, where government T-28s drop cluster bombs, gunships fire rockets, and miniguns and 105s endlessly pound away at Communist positions just northwest of the city...
Powered by a blustering wind that left seven of their competitors' boats capsized in a chilly Charles River, the Radcliffe varsity sailing squad won the two-day Victorian Coffee Urn Regatta here last weekend for the second consecutive year...