Death Rehearsal
Author | : Doug Pokorski |
Publisher | : Templegate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Death |
ISBN | : 9780872432154 |
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Author | : Doug Pokorski |
Publisher | : Templegate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Death |
ISBN | : 9780872432154 |
Author | : George Batson |
Publisher | : Samuel French, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Actors |
ISBN | : 9780573614699 |
"There is to be a rehearsal of a play starring Stella, a has-been actress, and a letter threatens dire consequences if the play continues. Among the actors are Peggy and her fiance Phil. There is also gossip columnist who loves Peggy and who threatens to expose something in Phil's past life. At the crucial point in the "play" Phil is supposed to shoot Stella. The gun goes off and the columnist is dead. It is surmised that the bullet was meant for Stella ..."--Publisher website.
Author | : Eleanor Theodora Roby BENSON (Hon.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 1954 |
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Author | : Ken Small |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2018-06-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472834550 |
27 April 1944. Exercise Tiger. German E-boats intercept rehearsals for the D-Day landings... On a dark night in 1944, a beautiful stretch of the Devon coast became the scene of desperate horror. Tales began to leak out of night-time explosions and seaborne activity. This was practice for Exercise Tiger, the main rehearsal for the Utah Beach landings. This fiasco, in which nearly 1,000 soldiers died, was buried by officials until it was almost forgotten. That is, until Ken Small discovered the story, and decided to dedicate the rest of his life to honouring the brave young men who perished in the disastrous exercise. Pulling a Sherman tank from the seabed, Ken created a memorial to those who died and started to share their story, and his, with the world. This updated edition of a bestselling classic is a gripping tale of wartime disaster and rescue in the words of the soldiers who were there, and of one man's curiosity that turned into a fight to ensure that they would never be forgotten.
Author | : Donald Heinz |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 1998-12-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0198027605 |
Is death merely the cessation of life? Are our final years simply a wearing out of the body? Are hospitals and funeral homes--the bureaucratic machinery of death--capable of handling the profound spiritual dimension of dying? In The Last Passage, Donald Heinz offers wise answers to these questions in a book that urges us to "recover a death of our own" and to view our final years as a fulfillment, a "last career." Despite the recent spate of books on death and dying, death remains a fact our culture tries desperately to ignore. In other times and in other cultures, preparing for death was seen as an important spiritual task--perhaps the most important task of our lives. Heinz argues that we can reconceive of death, reinvest it with meaning, and save it from becoming a meaningless biological event. Seeking appropriate models for such a reconstruction, Heinz offers a fascinating overview of the many ways death has been envisioned and ritualized throughout human history, from the Tibetan Book of the Dead to 15th century Christian ars moriendi--manuals on the art of dying--and from Jean Paul Sartre to Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. He also surveys the more recent contributions of psychologists, anthropologists, cultural critics, and death awareness advocates, whose efforts have largely failed to integrate death into a larger human story and the larger human community. Finally, Heinz shows us how we might create rituals through the use of music, visual arts, dance, drama, and language that would enable us to approach death with reverence, as the spiritual consummation of our lives.
Author | : Forrest Church |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2008-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0807097144 |
Nearing his final days, a beloved Unitarian minister meditates on life, love, and death: “The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for.” On a February day in 2008, Forrest Church sent a letter to the members of his congregation, informing them that he had terminal cancer; his life would now be measured in months, not years. He went on to promise that he would sum up his thoughts on the topics that had been so pervasive in his work—love and death—in a final book. Church has been justly celebrated as a writer of American history, but his works of spiritual guidance have been especially valued for their insight and inspiration. As a minister, Church defined religion as "our human response to the dual reality of being alive and having to die." The goal of life, he tells us "is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for." Love & Death is imbued with ideas and exemplars for achieving that goal, and the stories he offers—all drawn from his own experiences and from the lives of his friends, family, and parishioners—are both engrossing and enlightening. Forrest Church's final work may be his most lasting gift to his readers.