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...Gandhi throughout the Emergency, but deserted her at the last moment to help the Janata Party win the 1977 election. Last week she took her revenge by denying her old colleague the support that would have made him Prime Minister. It was ruthless politics, but as her aunt Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit once observed of her niece in office, "She was the only man in the Cabinet...
...gauntlet of murderous anti-Semites. Looking at Kafka began as a critical essay and gracefully unfurled into a fantasy in which Kafka did not die in 1924 but emigrated to New Jersey where he became Roth's Hebrew school teacher and troubled suitor of his maiden aunt...
...really an actress yet be cause she doesn't have the disciplines," says Barbara Claman, who has become a protective aunt to Linda. "But she's learning very fast." Linda works on dropping her accent. "I took a lesson in Southern, and all you have to do is draw out those words," she says. "I could do a middle-class kid, but I'll never be one. Maybe when I'm 95 and married." She will be 18 this month, but it is not just her 4-ft. 10-in. height that makes her seem younger; her emotions have only...
...living force; each individual finds his identity within the larger context of it. The boy's grandmother burns down her house to fool the enemy into thinking that a fugitive is hiding there, and not in one of the houses next door, thus giving him time to escape. His Aunt Liberty avenges her husband and brother to prevent her 16 year old son from doing so, and so dies in his place. His uncle too, is willing to share food, that most precious of commodities, with a dying girl, so weak that poppies bruise her skin...
Perhaps he is most captivating when he roams about the stage as a musical narrator recounting Tom Sawyer's sly tac tics in luring passing boys into whitewashing Aunt Polly's fence...