Word: burial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gallery, however, supplies none of this information. Furthermore, the effectiveness of the show is minimized by a careless arrangement that breaks up obvious sets, such as Adam and Eve, and ignores considerations of size and color. But what remains the most regrettable artistic defect of this exhibit is the burial of some works of artistic worth in a mass of readily salable trivia...
...museum, library and auditorium was typically Corbusian: a series of reinforced concrete structures set on stilts. But for the memorial itself Tange felt the need of something more evocative of Japan's past, decided on a massive concrete vault derived from the ancient Haniwa houses found in the burial mounds of early Japanese emperors. Under the shell is a simple stone block, beneath which the names of A-bomb victims are placed...
Running Away. For those who commit suicide, the committee recommends a special burial service. Those who are tempted or fail in an attempt should "be specially commended to the pastoral concern of the clergy," and the clergy should be "offered more help in understanding this part of their pastoral duty...
...finest story in the issue is by Kurt Blankmeyer, a piece called Saturday Burial, which describes the narrator's childhood experiences with a mad widow, and her dog Siegfried. The widow is a powerful Teuton transparently called Edda Norse, and the story has a conscious Germanic flavor and a fine not to say exciting Wagnerian ending. Saturday Burial is written in the same half-understanding, wide-eyed manner as Blankmeyer's Victory Over Japan, but less skillfully. The development is somewhat mechanical, and the events which should happen spontaneously seem to be plotted by an all-too-visible hand...
Qualifying Round. In Worcester Park, England, Charles Spice, 99, got a local undertaker's promise of free burial if he makes...