Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obsequiousness everywhere. Foreign ambassadors who were granted audiences with the Caudillo had a precise protocol of steps and bows. In addition to his love of pomp, Franco was a man of rigid decorum, methodical habit and deep Christian piety; his orderly days included regular attendance at Mass and midnight recitation of the rosary with his wife, the former Carmen Polo y Martinez Valdés. His few moments of relaxation were spent with his six grandchildren by his only child Carmencita, or in painting. Seascapes were his favorite subject...
...running continuously for the last 23 years or so. Directed by Evangeline Morphos, who did Arms and the Man at the Loeb last year. Performances in the Leverett House Old Library Theater October 30 and 31, and November 1,2, 5-8, at 8 p.m. Special Halloween performance at midnight...
Half-Naked Fakir. The situation was unimaginably complex-and utterly hopeless. Freedom at Midnight focuses on the four men who plunge ahead anyway, haggling out the new terms under which one-fifth of the world's population will live. Perhaps because Mountbatten is one of their primary sources, Collins and Lapierre cast him in heroic mold. The great-grandson of Queen Victoria faces his task with a stiff upper lip and a trembling lower one; he relishes the pomp of the viceroy's office while struggling to give it away...
...thing last week," an associate asks him, "and something quite different this week?" Replies Gandhi: "Ah, because I have learned something since last week." The Mahatma continues to learn; he becomes at last India's soul and conscience. The most moving pages of Freedom at Midnight show him doing what battalions of soldiers could not: preventing by his frail presence the slaughter of Moslems and Hindus in Calcutta...
...victims, rather than coauthors, of India's ceaseless agonies. The land and its people deserve more than a series of murals painted in primary colors. Yet even these oversized apologetics are diminished by the vastness of the nation and the tur moil that attended its beginnings. Freedom at Midnight has many flaws, but India is not one of them. Ultimately, the book, like the country itself, is overtaken by events...