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...Among human institutions, the family is the closest relative that the drama has. It is theater in miniform, compacted of love, hate, sibling rivalry, alienation and reconciliation. In capsule form, that describes this play. Playwright Hayes puts two sisters in a room with their dying mother and the pair harrow up the past and the present with bitter intensity and acridly funny put-down humor...
...beautiful American mother, née Jennie Jerome, provided another legacy: absolute self-absorption. By one account, she took 200 lovers, and after Randolph's early death from syphilis married a former Scots Guardsman 16 days older than her son. As a boy, Winston made few friends at Harrow or Sandhurst, but his self-confidence remained unshaken. At 32, the young Under Secretary of the Colonial Office stated, "We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glowworm...
Readers of The Scotch (1964) are reminded of the dour, industrious breed of Canadian farmers that molded the future agricultural economist, Harvard professor, Washington bureaucrat, journalist and diplomat: "A long day following a plodding, increasingly reluctant team behind a harrow endlessly back and forth over the uninspiring Ontario terrain persuaded one that all other work was easy...
Jawharlal Nehru is reported to have said in private that independence did not remove British control over his country's politics as he would be the last Englishman to rule India. Educated at Harrow and Cambridge, he took the reins of the nationalist movement following the death of Mohandas K. Gandhi, also educated in England. Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, educated at Oxford, became prime minister in 1966, two years after the death of her father. Dom Moraes, an Indian journalist based in London and also educated at Oxford, wrote Mrs. Gandhi's biography, while claiming to have little familiarity...
...Slouching Towards Bethlehem frankly do not purport to be objective social history, and we would be missing the point to regard them as such. Rather, we read these meditations upon Bogota and Malibu, John Wayne and Charles Manson to learn how an acutely sensitive and articulate individual managed to harrow the age. Subjectivity is the point in full...