Word: kali
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Saving the ace until the last, a charming India dancer named Lakshimi did an ably syncopated rendition of the myth of the creation of the world by Kali, the dread goddess who must create and destroy what she creates. Another effectively sinuous number of what was perhaps a spotty program was the story of Savitri, a charming legend of a faithful wife who cheats the Lord of Death of her husband in a neat pantomine...
...Kali." U.S. Military Mission Chief Lieut. General James Van Fleet was at the front to see how things were going. As he jeeped down one mountain road, with Greek Chief of Staff Demetrios Yantzis, a wizened peasant crone in a roadside wheatfield called out "Ora kali" (May the hour be with...
...Once in a great while a periodical produces a classic. Down in the annals of fame, with Will Irwin's The City That Was and William Allen White's memorial to his daughter, will surely go "The Trial of Kali." From every standpoint, literary, philosophical, humanitarian, it is impressive...
...magazine characterized by consistently good, and sometimes spine-tingling writing, the article on Kali impresses me as hitting a. very high high...
...Saheb of Junagadh once threw away 100,000 rupees on the wedding of his prize Airedale bitch, which wore ribbons to the ceremony; vows were read for her and her dog. *In 1802, after the Peace of Amiens, a group of British residents of Calcutta presented the temple of Kali with 5,000 rupees as a thank offering for victories over Napoleon. A century later Kali became a symbol of anti-British Indian nationalism, a place to which Mahatma Gandhi succeeded. That this substitution was only temporary was indicated not only by the killing but by Gandhi's recent...