Word: sarcophagi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early Olmecs were apparently inventive and cultivated people. They produced carved stone sarcophagi, colonnades of prismatic basalt, colossal basalt heads weighing up to 15 tons. Later Indians made no attempt to emulate these massive achievements. But Olmec stone bas-reliefs, ceramics and carved jades remained an influence, and the Olmec pantheon of jaguar gods appears to have lived on in different forms...
George VI had the feelings of a good trade unionist toward fellow monarchs, even dead ones, and at his own expense ordered the dilapidated sarcophagi of the three Stuart pretenders in the crypt of St. Peter's in Rome to be restored. When the time came for him to die, all men knew it. London might be a shambles, but its chief resident had come through it all with dignity and slim-waisted aplomb. At the end of his reign there were probably more supralapsarians than republicans in the country. He died, beloved within his Commonwealth of Nations...
...Appia Antica, right next door to the place where the Empress Poppaea used to take her daily bath in the milk of 300 asses. They have planted 300 trees on the grounds, laid out broad English lawns, strewn the area with ancient paving stones and 3rd century sarcophagi. As she surveys these domestic comforts (which she can en joy. only on weekends), Gina sighs, not quite convincingly: "I hope that the producers next year will give me time to do a baby...
...carvings of workaday subjects were both vigorous and elaborate. The dean of Renaissance art experts, Bernard Berenson, was instantly reminded, when he first saw them, of "the Early Christian sarcophagi that line the grand staircase of the Lateran Museum in Rome. The same stumpy, neckless bodies, with disproportionately big heads of late antique shape, the same crowding, the same . . . distribution of light and shade...