Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't Attenborough do a sympathetic portrayal of Gandhi...
...speech, sponsored by the South Asian Association, began with a brief summary of India's political and economic history. Wakankar discussed the tumult of the Gandhi regimes and India's eventual embrace of a representative government headed by a prime minister...
...Mohandas Gandhi...
Modern artists aren't so patient. The past decade or so has witnessed operas on such subjects as Mahatma Gandhi (Philip Glass's Satyagraha) and Richard Nixon (John Adams' Nixon in China). The latest example is Malcolm Little, known best as the black-power firebrand Malcolm X, who was gunned down in New York City 27 years ago. Spike Lee's already controversial film Malcolm X is due to open next month, but before there was Lee there was composer Anthony Davis and his powerful, chilling opera X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X, first produced in Philadelphia...
...effective way to resolve conflict. I seldom see the dehumanization that violence produces, not only in its victims, but also in its perpetrators. And I never see the nonviolent alternative -- the way of dialogue and love -- explored. Jesus has much to teach us here. So do Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Ninety-four percent of the American people believe in God; 41% go to church on any given Sunday. But you'd never know it by watching American TV. We seldom see TV characters reach for God or fight with Him, despite the theatricality latent in their doing...