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...NATION) was its quiet dignity. The brief Biblical service and the confident hymns bespoke the man who had chosen them before his death; like him, they were modest, realistic and hopeful. Yet, in a nation whose overblown funeral rites were once the proper subject of mockery in Jessica Mitford's The American Way of Death, such a straightforward farewell is no longer the exception. Christian funerals in the U.S. are changing, and they now tend to emphasize the simple, yet triumphant qualities that characterized the Eisenhower rites...
...Planning to be a freezee some day just as Dr. Bedford is, I must voice some objections to "Never Say Die" [Feb. 3]. You call the process of freezing "strange rites," but, as Jessica Mitford has ably pointed out, interment is the method that is eerie. Cryobiology is a young science, but the mass of individuals now planning on being frozen should give it a stimulating boost. Last year predictions ran that it would be 50 years before a mammalian brain would be successfully frozen, but one was successfully frozen and thawed that very year (Nature...
...rewriting a badly tooled draft of his forthcoming book, Other People's Money. Cerf also thought up the title for the book, as he did for Mac Hyman's No Time for Sergeants, William Brinkley's Don't Go Near the Wa ter, and Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate...
...KING, by Nancy Mitford. The scandalous complexity and splendor of Louis XIV's Court of Versailles reconstructed-and dissected-with learning and flair...
...KING, by Nancy Mitford. The scandalous complexity and splendor of Louis XIV's Court of Versailles reconstructed-and dissected-with learning and flair...