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...feet by an imposing policeman, Captain Falconieri, in whom any reasonably perceptive reader can discern the ingredients of a true lover: "Above all, in the powerful current of masculinity beamed towards her." The current, however, is short-circuited by calamities-knifings, renunciations, drownings and tears. Wiser and weepier at the novel's end, Adriana muses about how it all started with "those funny little wheels! How hard the things could biff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Also Current: Oct. 2, 1964 | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

Funerals are getting weepier, and a good thing, too, according to the executive secretary of the National Funeral Directors Association. Speaking in Milwaukee to the 75th annual convention of the Wisconsin Funeral Directors Association, Howard C. Raether said that the trend is now away from the cut-and-dried "memorial service" and back toward more ceremonial funerals. "Sociologists, clergymen and psychologists point out the therapy a funeral service provides for the survivors," said Raether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Funerals for Health | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

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