Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mothers were almost too weak to care for their babies. Said Mrs. Albert Ritchie of Great Neck, Long Island: "I believed there was no escape from the plane. . . . The babies' screams just tore every mother's heart to pieces. Every woman would say, There, there.' But that was about all they ever said. Our three-year-old son, Gordon, spent hours on his father's knee . . . never saying a word. We said ten thousand goodbyes with our eyes that...
...killed. The Moslems despised her as a wretched idol. The Sikhs* ignored her. Even most Hindus no longer participated in the rites of Kali's priests, who dismembered goats (in lieu of human victims), spraying the blood upon worshipers crowded in fields of which Kali was mother, fructifier and scourge. Nevertheless Kali, the Black One, could stand as symbol (or perhaps as scapegoat) for the horror that had walked hand in hand with bright liberty into India...
...reversed when the great Sivaji in the mid-17th Century led his Marathas against the Moslems. Thus, by the time the British reached India, both Hindu and Moslem were deeply immersed in hate, deeply conscious of dispossession before the British dispossessed both. Through all the changes, Kali, both as mother and as evil, persevered, so that when freedom came there were more Indians than ever to hate each other more intensively than ever...
...remainder of Mother Advocate's governing body. which has been directing its activities since last spring, include Pegasus--literary editor--William A. Emerson, Jr. '48, Treasurer Armin St, George'49, and Art Editor Stuart C. Welch...
...Osbert's previous volumes Left Hand, Right Hand and The Scarlet Tree, the dark patches in the tapestry are family matters: the confused tyrannies of the writer's puttering father, the rages and tragic secrecies of his Plantagenet mother. Sir Osbert himself was 19 in 1911, free at last from Eton, but not free from Sir George Sitwell's fuzzy determination to make him a cavalryman. One gentle burlesque that makes this book vivid is Sir Osbert's memory of cavalry training at Aldershot...