Word: beholds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BEHOLD THE FIRE by Michael Blankfort. 397 pages. The New American Library...
Author Blankfort, who has a daughter and three grandchildren now living in Israel, has poured his heart into Behold the Fire, his eighth novel. His prose at times is hauntingly Biblical. His description of Jewish farmers battling a locust swarm is so vividly and sparely done that the reader can all but feel the crunch of the crawling vermin underfoot. And his protagonists, growing almost against their will to withstand stresses they never imagined, will not be easy to forget...
President Sukarno's Anniversary Day speeches are usually something to behold. His head bobbing furiously, a finger jabbing at the sky, he loves wild histrionics that send crowds into chanting, clapping frenzies. But last week as 60,000 gathered before the canopied platform at Merdeka Palace, Indonesia's ruler put on a strangely muted, flat and unspirited show. He called his speech "Reach for the Stars," but it did not get off the ground...
Excellent Vibrations. Mrs. Dixon specializes in lesser catastrophes as well. She is always predicting death or disaster for some friend, and lo and behold, writes her friend Ruth, the poor fellow keels over. On the other hand, some of her visions are quite exalted. She has announced that a child was born in Egypt in 1962 who is destined to be the "greatest power for world good since the coming of Christ." But she did not say who bore the child...
...problem is everywhere to behold-in fly-filled villages, along dusty bullock paths, in the dismal density of city tenements-millions of people trapped in desperate squalor. In the hope of ending all this, India has struggled ineffectually for years to promote family planning. The rhythm method proved too complicated for a 75% illiterate population. To help women keep track of the days of the month, the government devised a handy string of beads (green for safe days, black for unsafe). Children upset the arithmetic by toying with the beads. Some women mistook the strings for a charm against conception...