Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This age group is relatively fortunate, however; it escapes blame--by a margin of several babysitters--for the Nehru collar, Bell Bottoms, paper dresses, peace symbol neckties, and chalk-white lipstick...
...wild familiar Irish tune was in the air. It shrilled and banged from the oriental instruments of an outlandish procession. First on a white charger rode Pandit Motilal Nehru, President of the Indian National Congress, followed by 20 elephants magnificently caparisoned. Next came famed Mahatma Gandhi, a wizened, self-starved little saint, wearing as his only garment a skimpy loin cloth-the most adored and potent man in India...
...their barricade. They had met with the announced purpose of committing High Treason en masse, assembled as did 65 American colonists in 1776 to defy a British sovereign with a Declaration of Independence. Only 3,000 of them were official delegates but all 80,000 shrilled applause as Pandit Nehru cried: "We are now in open conspiracy to free India...
...play suggests, will go to bed with any winner). As in Plenty, Hare is weakest when trying to show how his people get from one point in their lives to a radically different one and strongest when he hectors, beguiles, exhausts, persuades through his characters. Roshan Seth, who played Nehru in Gandhi, turns Mehta-at first a stone figure on the horseback of ego-into a complex and winning man of his own world...
Setting the tone for the meeting, Mrs. Gandhi quoted Nehru, her father, when she said in her keynote speech: "Our policy will continue to be not only to keep aloof from alignments but to try to make friendly cooperation possible." She addressed common Third World concerns, urging "comprehensive reforms" of the international monetary and financial system, which she described as "out of date, inequitable and inadequate." Carefully avoiding any mention of the U.S. and the Soviet Union by name, she asked the two superpowers to "give up the use or threat of nuclear weapons." Mrs. Gandhi appealed to Iran...