Though death finds symbolic expression in boats that move away from shore a Charon-like motif and in the poplar tree, it is referenced more directly in paintings like The Abbey in the Oakwood (1808 10), in which monks carry a coffin past an open grave, toward a cross, and through the portal of a church in ruins.
Graves' attitude toward the product, coupled with his physical distress after awakening from a sound sleep, could also have been viewed by the jury as producing an instinctive reaction, resulting in Graves reaching for the baking soda, and pouring it into the glass, rather than measuring it as his grandmother had done.
On a recent afternoon, Mr. Aguilera was feeling well enough to take careful steps toward the graves of his two brothers and father, all victims of the disease.
"You hope it's not a resurgence of something, of anti-Semitism, but I don't know," Herschel Price, 87, of Creve Coeur, Mo., said as he walked toward the graves of his mother and father.
"She is rejoining the family she played with, with the family of Yiddish theater she loved so much," said Corey Breier, president of the theatrical alliance, as he motioned toward the graves of all the theater colleagues, including Ms. Lerer's best friend, Mina Bern, the great Yiddish actress who died last year at age 98. "This is the history of Yiddish theater right here," Mr. Wolfe said.
Kolesnikov is buried in a narrow alley of grave sites toward the back, past the tombstones of famed Soviet pilots and actresses and engineers.
"Parents right now feel such a grave responsibility toward the happiness and well-being and success of their child," Ms. Wald said.
He spoke of the grave injustice toward those who were cleaning up scraps from the street but not paid enough to put fresh food on their own tables.
For example, in The Abbey in the Oakwood, the movement of the monks away from the open grave and toward the cross and the horizon imparts Friedrich's message that the final destination of man's life lies beyond the grave.
Graves's vindictiveness toward writer did not reach him except by rumor, and there he was hurt mostly by its untruths.
The procession toward the graves began just after 3 p.m., with groups of about 12 raising each body to shoulder level.
