Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young woman of nineteen, married and draped in a sari, committed to her home and family, my mother first encountered a very young Indira at a local college, where she gave a speech about the role of college-educated women in the future of the country. To my mother, Indira Gandhi was and always will be a beacon of hope for the future of the Indian woman. For thousands of Indian women like my mother, she symbolized all that the Indian woman could achieve, given the limited opportunities of a social and cultural tradition that to this day requires...
...embodied the strength of India, its achievements, its aspirations and its very spirit. For many Indians, there is today a personal sense of loss. Indira was not always one of the world's greatest leaders. We saw her as a shy and much loved daughter of her father, a mother to her two sons, a savior of the oppressed people of Bangladesh, military leader of the Indian army, writer, intellectual, stateswoman, politician, party-leader, tyrant, dictator and leader of the largest democracy in the world. We saw her as a Gandhian, dressed in "khadi," or handspun cloth, tirelessly travelling through...
...Small Affair enjoyable at first, as Charles and his ever-present camera walk aloof from romance. His brother Leonard (Frenchette) goes through enough girlfriends to make "finance" sound like a synonym for "Miss." Struggling to become something more than a straight (wo)man for Charles's barbs, his mother sticks to her live-in "Uncle" Ken. "I hope you're planning to marry her," Charles tells mom's shaving-cream-adorned amour, "you know it's the only decent thing to do." Uncle Jake calls it Charles's attitude problem, romanties call it cynicism, but it all adds...
When the local authorities hand Alan (played by Andrew Sullivan) over to Dysart (Chad Raphael) the doctor expects only the "usual unusual". And indeed, at first glance, the facts of the boy's life appear mundane. Sifting through his personal history, Dysart learns that Alan's mother, a religous woman, used to read the Bible to him before he went to bed. The fixation with horses ostensibly stems from an incident on the beach when Alan was six years old: a man on a horse let him ride the animal for a while, an experience he later describes to Dysart...
...part, Bailey found it hard to understand why people would question a procedure that was saving the life of a dying infant. "If you had the opportunity to see this baby and her mother together, and see this baby in the best shape she's ever been, you would see the propriety of what we are doing," he said...