Word: ushering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clear field since the withdrawal of a Belmont fisherman named, of course, Kennedy (James M.). A pair of Kennedys are out to succeed incumbent Treasurer John Francis Kennedy: John Michael, 63, a Boston commercial painter, and John Boyle, 59, town manager of Saugus (pop. 20,000), who was an usher at the funeral of Jack Kennedy's grandfather. "We all came from Ireland," says John B., "and there probably was something there, but we don't want to trade...
Couplets for Hector. Mani's most cherished art form is the miroloy, the dirge with which keening womenfolk usher the Maniot out of a harsh world that neither man nor God seemingly made. More a lament for a hero being taken to the underworld than for a Christian going to his reward-even as she makes the sign of the cross, the grieving widow will say, "Charon took him"-the miroloy mirrors in its 16-syllable line the lament of Andromache over the body of Hector. At graveside, the chief mourner's voice becomes a howl of hysteria...
Novelist Styron's first book, Lie Down in Darkness, was a Fall-of-the-House-of-Usher story about a decaying Southern family, and its lyric, doom-haunted evocation of the Southern landscape made the author the bright hope of U.S. fiction among some critics, as well as the hero of a lively minor cult on college campuses. Much of his new and far inferior book takes place in Italy, south of Rome, but the characters and attitudes are standard sub-Mason-Dixon. The two central figures are Mason Flagg, a rich neurotic dilettante, and Cass Kinsolving, an alcoholic...