Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newly elected Prime Minister has yet to convince the intellectuals of India of her own mettle. Until the death of Nehru, Indians accepted her as the daughter of a leading personality, and she continues to bask in that glory even today. The big bosses of Congress find it convenient to keep a compromising or a weak Prime Minister in New Delhi so that they can control the states. It.is to perpetuate this "reign of terror" that the Congress Party elected Mrs. Indira Gandhi...
...with the Establishment, but among his scientist friends he back-slaps sufficiently. He brings extreme power to the role, perhaps too much. The rest of the Charles cast rarely reaches his heights or depths. Lynn Milgrim provides the one exception with her brilliant performance as Galileo's light-hearted daughter who changes into a madonna-like grey-haired spinster...
When he first came from his home town of Valtero, in northern Greece, Miltiades Vlachos seemed just another one of the horde of foreign workers who have gone to work in West Germany's booming factories. He settled in Wuppertal, where his wife Eketerini and his elder daughter Helena joined him to work at a cable plant. Vlachos, 42, however, was a moody, tempestuous man, and he eventually lost his job through an argument with a foreman. So when his son Ioannis, 22, who worked near by, decided to send for his 18-year-old wife Niki, the family...
Fortnight ago he returned alone. The family soon learned why. From relations in Greece, a letter arrived, telling how Vlachos had lured his daughter-in-law into a Salonika hotel room and raped her. In the poverty-stricken hill towns of Greece, where whole families are sometimes forced to sleep beneath the same blanket, incest and related affairs are not unknown, nor do these proud but ignorant people turn to the law to deal with such delicate matters...
...might secretly practice Jewish rites. Fatally, Don Alvero is such a one, or could be mistaken for one by malice and fanaticism. And so, Torquemada puts his friend to the torture. Alvero's own wife repudiates him as a Jew, and while he is recovering from torture, his daughter is immolated in a fire that burns the ancient synagogue of Segovia. Thomas gives Alvero his freedom in exchange for the girl's sacrifice...