Word: crematorium
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...title is an implicit judgment on a civilization that plummets from its zenith to its lowest depths. The inmates of the death camp spend most of the evening dumping each other in and out of wheelbarrows, piecing together homely sections of stovepipe and finally, one by one, entering a crematorium. The playgoer's knowledge that the pipes that the members of the cast have strung about the stage will channel the smoke of their own burning flesh makes Akropolis the most powerful indictment of genocide that has been rendered in the theater...
...almost mechanical austerity, in which the spiritual has little or no place. Not surprisingly, some undertakers are disturbed about the rising frequency of what they disdainfully dub the "run-in" or "disposal" funeral: the briefest memorial service, no embalming, just a quick transfer of the body to the crematorium. Obviously, the problem for the Christian is to strike a balance in which death can be faced as the mystery it is, with neither false confidence nor excessive grief. Ideally, says the Rev. Dr. Albert J. Penner, president of the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ, death should...
...views. Kosterin had protested a variety of Soviet repressions, including the recent trials of dissidents and the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Though that alone might have accounted for the brusqueness of his funeral, Soviet authorities were actually far more concerned with the living than with the dead in the crematorium. For Kosterin's eulogist was his old friend, Major General Pyotr Grigorenko, one of the most outspoken of Russia's dissenters. For his forthrightness he was once locked up in an insane asylum, a standard Soviet form of dealing with political troublemakers...
...Crematorium. Many West Berlin businesses have set up shop elsewhere, with the result that the city has already been superseded as West Germany's financial center by Frankfurt and is now being challenged in the fashion industry by both Munich and Düsseldorf. Siemens, West Germany's biggest electrical-equipment company, moved its headquarters out of West Berlin after World War II, and others have followed suit. The inconvenience of maintaining facilities geared to West German markets in West Berlin is only too apparent. Complained one industrialist after recently abandoning Berlin: "Last year I spent 250 days...
...third husband, Brajesh Singh, who died last fall in Moscow of a heart attack: "As you lay in your coffin in our dismal Moscow crematorium, strangers came up to look at your calm, beautiful face. It was very cold, and we stood there in fur coats ... all of you, my dear friends from the unfortunate Institute of World Literature...