Word: gandhis
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...closed in 1964 because of his unsparing depiction of ordinary Soviet life. After two years in deep disfavor, Glazunov began a comeback when then Danish Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag asked that the artist do his portrait. In 1968 Glazunov finished a portrait of India's Indira Gandhi that the lady greatly admired. Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev reportedly felt much the same way about a portrait of himself that Glazunov, unbidden, executed for Brezhnev's 70th birthday last year...
This journey took place during the early months of Indira Gandhi's state of emergency, and the book was completed before her dramatic electoral defeat in March. But that hardly matters. If anything, the author seems to have preferred the emergency to the old-style Gandhianism of Morarji Desai, now the Prime Minister. The real crisis, writes Naipaul sadly, is neither political nor economic, but that of a decaying civilization whose "only hope lies in further swift decay." There is no clue as to the shape of the approaching apocalypse; only the chill warning that "the past...
...self could lead either to the perpetuation of identity confusion in a neurotic adulthood or to an inventive re-integration of an identity largely independent of family and established social roles, and thus to a healthy, productive maturity. Erikson carried this concept over into his studies of Luther and Gandhi, and postulated the unfolding of their identity crises as part and parcel of their respective forms of greatness...
...humiliating defeat of Indira Gandhi and her colleagues is, and must be, a lesson for the arrogant and indifferent elite of India-government officials and intellectuals who control and dominate the poor and the powerless...
...Nixon: An Emotional Tragedy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $10.95), the latest entry in the burgeoning field known as "psychobiography.'' Psychobiographers seek to explain the lives of famous people by theorizing about their inner psyches. The best-known and most respected practitioner, Erik Erikson, subjected Luther and Gandhi to the treatment. Sigmund Freud once collaborated (with William Bullitt) on a job on Woodrow Wilson. By now psychobiography has become such a fad that last year an American Psychiatric Association task force recommended that psychiatrists avoid such projects unless the subjects are dead or give their permission...