Word: epitaphs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marcellus II, who died 22 days after his election in 1555, it was said in his epitaph that "he was destined only to appear." Of all the short-lived Popes, Urban VII was most promising. Elected in 1590, he immediately began reforming the Papal States and promoting public works. But the day after his election Urban caught malaria and died in eleven days...
Jack Kerouac did not write reportage, he wrote fiction. He had a memory for detail and the abstract which earned him Holmes's affectionate epitaph. Above all, Kerouac applied a new, rhapsodic prose form to the old story of a young man's crazy adventures...
...epitaph on the Kennedy Administration became Camelot...
Perhaps. If so, there is already at hand An Epitaph for Dixie. It was written in the late 1950s by Harry Ashmore, prizewinning editor of the Arkansas Gazette during the Little Rock crisis and later a fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Way back then, Ashmore saw that Dixie had long since vanished from the earth, dislodged and replaced by the televised consciousness emanating from New York and other alien parts. Ashmore supposed at the time that his modest epitaph might be useful, say, in a generation. That time is now at hand. But will...
Stop writing Ali's epitaph; he does not belong to the ages. He projects infinite variety and has exhausted only one of his talents. Win or lose, for millions he's a champ...