Word: coffining
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...flickering light of oil lamps, five gravediggers. working before dawn in London's Highgate Cemetery, dug up the moldy, plain elmwood coffin of Karl Marx, father of Communism, whose remains had lain undisturbed for almost 62 years, ever since he died peacefully in his small London house. They reburied him in a larger Highgate lot, some 200 yards away. There, Britain's Marx Memorial Committee will erect a polished black granite monument (estimated cost: $14,-ooo) with a reverent inscription...
...negotiate the Algerian question-that revolt on the soil of Algeria is treason. "The only negotiation," said Interior Minister Francois Mitterrand, "is war." The Algerian nationalists have an answer: "La valise ou le cercueil"-meaning, if you don't take a traveling bag, you will get a coffin...
...complete failures. But the two best ones make it plain that Author Krige is more than promising: 1) The Dream, which lyrically describes a happy young boy's bewilderment when death robs him of his favorite aunt and cousins, then takes his baby brother as well; 2) The Coffin, a fine yarn about a virile old South African farmer and great-grandfather who always had his own expensive coffin ready and waiting in the storeroom. One after another, he gave away several of them to less hardy contemporaries, was caught short without one when his own death came...
Fleet Street was not taken in by Lord Beaverbrook's grave-faced, solemn announcement . . . Lord Beaverbrook is a practiced performer of the last and final farewell . . . There is nothing more joyful than lying concealed underneath the pew at your own funeral service-safe in the knowledge that the coffin lid can be easily unscrewed from below and that willing and faithful hands will be at the cemetery at midnight to welcome back the jaunty corpse...
...occasion requires. Comes time for the concluding festivities in the Pharaoh's crypt, Taylor seems so tired of it all that he hardly bothers to respond to Actress Parker's subterranean snuggling-a fact which at least spares the moviegoer a sort of petting party in a coffin...