Word: banyan
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...group of Harijan (untouchable) women who had been raped by men of a higher caste, sat down on the ground and listened to their stories. But she could be caustic and ruthless in dealing with party politicians. She once declared, "Some people say my father was like the banyan tree, that nothing could grow in his shadow. Nothing could be further from the truth. He was like the sun. He allowed everything to grow, including?let us be honest?the weeds." Even before succeeding his mother, Rajiv had set out to uproot some of these weeds, or their progeny...
...with wonderful canine verisimilitude by Brian Muehl) must locate all the landmarks depicted on the scroll; each locale provides a clue to the whereabouts of the elusive phoenix. After solving all the clues, Big Bird finds his shimmering Chinese soul mate perched in the sheltering arms of a spectacular banyan tree...
Samphan also granted an exclusive interview to Clark, the first he has given since he became Premier. Composed, almost serene, Samphan sat at a table beneath a canopy of banyan trees as silent Khmer Rouge soldiers stood guard. Excerpts from the 90-minute conversation...
...captain, James Cook, mapped the island, which he spelled Mowee.* Though Hana can be reached in minutes by air, driving there is half the fun. The shoestring road, with 617 switchback bends and 56 one-way bridges, bumples through a jungle of bamboo, fern, maune loa vines, breadfruit, mango, banyan, banana, kukui and hau trees, perfumed by guava and wild ginger. Then, out of the forest and into the breeze, the white-knuckled driver arrives at the Hotel Hana-Maui, an island landmark...
...drama of self-regard, of fictive autobiography and moral essay. Often, as in Siddhartha, he wrote in the mock profundities of fable enveloped in the incense of the East. The effects could be silly: " 'Govinda,' said Siddhartha to his friend, 'Govinda, come with me to the banyan tree. We will practice meditation.' " Hesse hung his earlier stories with necromantic swags. In the middle period of Steppenwolf, he contrived a surreal kind of existentialism. In his masterpiece, The Glass Bead Game (or Magister Ludi, the English title), composed during precisely the years when Hitler consolidated his power...