Word: godse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ashoka (beloved of the gods) made India into a united nation in the 3rd Century B.C. He was "the only military monarch on record who abandoned warfare after victory." He also popularized Buddhist vegetarianism. After consolidating all India except the southernmost tip, Ashoka remorsefully swore off war, and ruled "for...
A Chinese last week was doing his quiet bit to enlighten Manhattanites on a subject of great current interest to China-India. C. T. Loo, noted dealer and connoisseur, after a quarter-century of patient collecting, opened a display of "The Sculpture of Greater India." The people who went to...
Buddhism, which originated in India in the 5th Century B.C., had spread all over the East but practically disappeared from its homeland by the 13th Century A.D.The Buddhist ascendancy mellowed Indian sculpture into a less sensuous character. Instead of the bulbous breasts, swivel hips, wasp waists and whirling, multiple arms...
An added barb: Wagner's own granddaughter, Friedelind, introducing Britannia, said: "Wagner wrote [it] because he loved and admired the spirit of the British people. . . . However, he did not write a Get -mania to glorify the German spirit. He wrote the Twilight o/ the Gods. ..."
But he is by no means myopic. He observes, in the gait of the women, "a kind of serenely confident ostentation"; he notes too that they are bold with their eyes in the streets, and the men shy, almost to a reversal of sex. To him the well-known myth...