Word: epitaphs
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...These qualities, as much as any specific accomplishments, will make his figure endure, just as the memory of another great-and even more controversial- Frenchman has survived through the years. As a young man, Charles de Gaulle composed a tribute to Napoleon Bonaparte that could serve as his own epitaph: "In spite of the time that has gone by, of opposing sentiments and new subjects for mourning, crowds from every part of the world render homage to his memory and near his grave abandon themselves to a shiver of grandeur...
...political strength in the Senate. Ideologically, it would be a standoff for Nixon-Agnew, but Goodell's political epitaph would cause liberal Republicans, far less aberrant than he, to wonder how often they can stray from the Administration reservation without being read out of the tribe...
...myths and fables-Orpheus, Oedipus, Antigone. Angels abound in his writing and painting. He wanted to enchant his audience rather than move them to pity and terror. "I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost." He would have been delighted with Auden's simple epitaph: "The lasting feeling that his work leaves is one of happiness...
...headline read FEW PRESENT. In three terse sentences, the obituary in the New Haven Evening Register of Aug. 14, 1884, informed readers that the aged inventor Rufus Porter was dead, and that "there were very few present at the service." It was a cruel epitaph for a man who had lived 92 years and responded so creatively to an inventive age. Porter was the creator of more than 100 machines and gadgets including a washing machine, an airship, a portable, prefabricated house, an automobile run on steam, and an elevated train. He was the founder of the Scientific American, which...
...good for the Christian health to hustle the Aryan brown, For the Christian riles, and the Aryan smiles and he weareth the Christian down; And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph drear: "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East...