Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gaudy circus tent in the fabled pink city of Jaipur, the leaders of India's ruling Congress Party talked themselves hoarse last week in the first intensive effort to refurbish their political image since independence came in 1947. Propped on sausage-shaped bolsters under a huge portrait of Gandhi, the dhoti-clad politicians pledged "self-sacrifice" and "democratic socialism"-and at mealtimes roared off in fin-tailed limousines. Endorsing "non-alignment," party leaders warned ritualistically against "entanglement with military blocs"-even as U.S., British and Indian warplanes flew over New Delhi in joint air exercises. After a six-hour...
Adenauer was "a lemon on a flagpole," Gandhi "a pyramid of homespun cloth topped with a dried prune," George Bernard Shaw "the devil's Santa Claus," John D. Rockefeller "the mummy of Rameses II." Churchill had a face "put together like early rose potatoes"; Franklin D. Roosevelt was "a fox grafted onto a lion" who "used his jaw as men use hands and elephants use trunks." If the descriptions sound like notes for a cartoon to be drawn later, there is good reason. The words belong to Emery Kelen, a Hungarian-born caricaturist who has spent most...
Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, who is herself a potential candidate to succeed Nehru, insisted that India's mood of unrest is a sign of "progress." Impatiently tapping a pink-toed, sandaled foot, Mrs. Gandhi explained: "When your children reach their teens, they suddenly feel their parents are all wrong. India is in that stage now, for it's just 16 years old. Everybody grumbles about taxes. But you can see the number of shops increasing, more people going to the cinema, more people going on holidays. Why, the mountain resorts are so chock-full that...
...sovereigns saved from the looters by an aged Kaffir retainer. And so it goes in plummy neo-Hemingway prose, with three dozen major characters, 189 speaking parts, thousands of extras, and big-name guest stars playing themselves-War Correspondent Winston Churchill, Army Doctor Arthur Conan Doyle, Stretcher-Bearer Mohandas Gandhi...
...foreign press photographer in Russia when Hitler attacked, she dodged wardens and bombers to shoot the nightly air raids on Moscow. Her ship was torpedoed out from under her in the invasion of Africa; she was among the first correspondents to photograph Buchenwald; she was the last to interview Gandhi, hours before his assassination. Thus Margaret Bourke-White followed the classic dictum of her trade, to be "in the right place at the right time." Now 57, she has put the places and the times together with some of her fine pictures in an autobiography...