Word: burial
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scabs of various shades are mere dust heaps while you [the Albanian Communist Party] are a lofty mountain, tower to the skies. They are slaves and accomplices of imperialism . . . The U.S. imperialists and all other such harmful insects have already created their own gravediggers; the day of their burial cannot...
...Burial Cloth. At the entrance to the Civic Center waved a giant banner: WELCOME TO THE EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS. COME AND SEE THE FACE OF JESUS ON HIS BURIAL CLOTH. Inside, pilgrims viewed photos of the Holy Shroud of Turin, the purported burial cloth on which Jesus' image appears. Near by there were booths offering clerical clothing and T shirts, booths advocating sainthood for Italian Missionary Samuel Mazzuchelli and publicizing struggling Catholic colleges...
...accident that civilization has made sacred rituals out of the decent burial of the dead. Individually and collectively, society may well be un able to endure a prolonged look at the physical aftereffects of death. The central mystery of existence - the end that unites everyone even as it divides them - cannot be reduced to ghoulish titillation without the possibility of serious consequences. Even in Shakespeare's most grotesque play, Titus Andronicus ("Enter a messenger with two heads and a hand"), the gruesome details are always treated as if they were unquestionably monstrous. But in City of the Dead...
...half-mast throughout California. In Yuba City there was a joint service for five of the students who were Mormons. A second joint service was held for Tom Brooks, 17, and his steady girl friend Lori Killingsworth, 18. But most of the rites were conducted individually, followed by burial among the withered flowers that were scattered about the sere 20-acre graveyard four miles outside town. On all sides lie ripening rice fields, surrounded in turn by the orchards that make this the Peach Bowl of America. In the distance rises 2,117-foot Sutter Buttes, which passes...
...Private pilots ferried parents of the injured students, free of charge, to hospitals in Martinez. The Loyal Order of the Moose set up a center that collected 313 pints of blood in eight hours and had to turn away hundreds of prospective donors. An undertaker offered free burial plots but had no takers...