Word: elders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MAHABHARATA A 9 1/2-hour adaptation by Peter Brook, elder statesman of the avant-garde, of the great Hindu antiwar epic. Inevitable longueurs and some uncertain English from a polyglot cast, but spellbinding ritual and visual metaphor...
...them; nearly everyone knows how World Wars I and II turned out. Deighton's purpose is not to astound but to explain. He meticulously traces the lives of two brothers, the sons of a wealthy Berlin financier and his beautiful American wife. Peter Winter is the elder by three years; Paul, born in 1900, is a "child of the new century." One brother, inevitably, will become a Nazi, while the other will not. In his prologue, Deighton warns that the Winter brothers "had lived through a series of episodes, most of which were frustrating and unsatisfactory...
With his full head of silver hair, his impeccably tailored pinstripe suits and his still trim figure, he certainly looked the part of the quintessential elder statesman. But he is no mere ornament in this, the seventh of the Administrations he has served. "I've advised every President since Roosevelt," said Nitze last week. "And all, to some extent, have sought and taken that advice." That pointedly includes Ronald Reagan. As special adviser to the President and Secretary of State for Arms Control, Nitze played a key, sometimes controversial part in crafting last week's treaty on intermediate- range nuclear...
...food from relief workers. Family after family moves past the rough wood table to register for the donations. Each supplicant dips a finger in purple dye to ensure that there is no cheating for seconds. "It is worse this year than it was in 1984 and 1985," laments Chief Elder Muboulle Osman, a tall, worried-looking man of about 50. "There are 72,000 people in this area, and we have no food, not even grazing for our animals. Without this," he gestures toward a long, green tarpaulin piled high with wheat flour, beans and grain, "we would starve...
Dayal Kaur Khalsa introduces a more familiar animal in I Want a Dog (Potter; $10.95). An eager young girl named May has only one wish, a canine of her own. "When you're older," replies an elder, and the highly colored tale begins. May carries a slice of salami, and gets trailed by ten potential pets who just happen to follow her home. The answer is no. Desperately, she goes everywhere with a roller skate on a leash, to prove that she is capable of caring for something besides herself. Along the way, she learns a double moral: the value...