Word: holding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lasted for seven months. Starting with acute abdominal pain, weakness of the limbs and the classic discolored urine, his symptoms progressed through insomnia, headache and restlessness to delirium, convulsions and stupor. Even after his condition improved, George suffered periods during which his doctors said "wrong ideas" took hold of him. In 1810, he became so ill that he was incapacitated for the rest of his life, and his son, as Prince Regent, assumed the King's duties, George died at 81, one month after a turbulent attack during which he went 58 hours without sleep...
White's third account ultimately disappoints. What is bothersome in the book is bothersome in the nation. As White himself explains: "It is difficult to be precise about the nature of the nightmare year out of which came Nixon's election. No phrase, no thought can catch, hold and bind together in one frame all the roaring events, the blood and disorders, the inflation and uprisings...
...Boston followers of the swami support themselves by taking alms and selling their magazine "Back to Godhead," which prints articles on the swami's teachings. Several members of the group hold outside jobs--one is a social worker--and contribute their pay to the temple...
Their orange robes are a form of transcendental dress, introduced in India by Lord Chaitanya 450 years ago. He popularized the chanting aspect of Indian religion, writing in 'Siksistak,' "Oh my Lord! you have so kindly made easy approach to you by your hold Names...
TROPICI'S narrative barely manages to hold one's attention. When the director isn't senselessly simulating documentary reality--for some incomprehensible reason he feels compelled to film every passenger clambering aboard the truck--he is indulging himself in cheap pyrotechnics. For what it's worth, a smidgen of narrative tension is supplied by a dissident passenger who knows what Sao Paolo holds and how their employers will treat them: "Your have to watch out for those gringoes ... they don't like paying money for nothing." He plans to give them the slip once they hit the city, or else...