Word: anti-british
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Feroze had been studying in Allahabad some years earlier when the sickly Kamala collapsed while marching in an anti-British demonstration outside his college. He took her home, became slightly infatuated with her and lingered around the house as a friend of the family's. He hardly noticed Indira, who was five years younger than he. But after the two had returned home to India from blitzed and threatened London, Indira announced in 1941 that they wanted to get married. Nehru was dismayed; he needed Indira to run his household. Feroze had no money, no job. "Nobody wanted that...
...Croppies," composed in memory of the Catholic farm boys who fought the Protestant armies nearly two centuries ago, "on Vinegar Hill, the fatal conclave," where "terraced thousands died, shaking scythes at cannon." Even these acrimonious lines have not satisfied some Irish nationalists who criticize him for refusing to write anti-British broadsides. Counters Heaney: "The job of the artist is to make works of art, not to be involved in one cause or another...
After a brisk set change and excellent overture from the fine orchestra conducted by Roger Grodsky, the scene unfolds aboard the deck of the ship HMS Planfore. The audience stands and sings "God Bless the Queen"--even an anti-British revolutionary would momentarily shed hostility towards the English monarchy...
...lighthearted, however, were the pamphlets and broadsides delivered by the local Irish Republican Committee encouraging anti-British protesters to confront the Queen. At the Davies Symphony Hall's morning entertainment (which included, à la campy Carmen Miranda, two women with hats bearing huge models of downtown London and San Francisco), an Ulster émigré named Seamus Gibney screamed, "Stop the torture!" He was hauled out, Mary Martin calmly finished singing Getting to Know You, and the Queen's press secretary said he thought Gibney had only coughed...
...being was born," he wrote in his memoirs of those days, "a specimen completely unknown to the world for over 1,800 years, the fighting Jew." After a year in Soviet prisons, Begin went to Palestine and in swift order was leading the Irgun's violently anti-Arab and anti-British campaigns...