Word: ghandi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sound as absurd and insulting as the Pakistanis who kept telling me that the lives of 600 million people were in my hands. Just because Ghandi refused to sign a peace agreement with Bhutto because of some things Bhutto said in an interview I had with him. I replied--you can read this in my book--that my hands were too small to contain that many people...
...flaunt your power throughout your book, Ms. Fallaci. In fact, it seems you or your publishers sent the complete text of the Bhutto interview to Ms. Ghandi, whom you supported at the time, and you describe the final outcome--Ghandi's triumph and Bhutto's embarrassment--with arrogant glee...
...later in a Royal Air Force career, allowed Lawrence to exercise his talent for "enabling." Lawrence, through his sharp understanding of the needs of men, managed with grace to prod and guide them into putting their wishes into action. Erik Erikson stressed this same talent for "enabling" in Mahatmha Ghandi, in a work, Ghandi's Truth, that sets the standard for insightful psycho-history. And like Erikson, Mack demonstrates how Lawrence made this talent a continual game that challenged his considerable wits and tested his subtle power to move and manipulate his environment...
...Professor of Biology, John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, Daniel Bell, professor of Sociology, Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government and Martin H. Peretz, lecturer on Social Studies, signed the statement in protest of restraints placed on Indian civil liberties by the government of Prime Minister Indira Ghandi...
...restraints, which include arrests without the right of habeus corpus of thousands of critics of Ghandi's government, press censorship and cancellation of national elections, were imposed during a state of internal emergency Ghandi declared last year...