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With Gandhi went Mme. Sarojini Naidu, poetess, and Madeline Slade, the British admiral's daughter who has been Gandhi's devoted follower for 17 years. Mme. Gandhi, older (73), tinier (barely four feet tall) and far frailer than her scrawny spouse who is still tough as nails despite the fiction that he is sickly, was allowed to remain in the Birla home. But that evening, she, too, was arrested when she tried to make a speech before 30,000 persons in a big Bombay park. The meeting was broken up, but not before other speakers read the last...
...Among those present: huge, bearded Abdul Gaffar Khan, a Moslem who spends his life preaching Hindu Gandhi's nonviolence principles to the fierce Pathans of the Northwest Frontier Province; the Congress Party's spade-bearded Moslem President, Maulana Abdulkalam Azad, who gesticulates like a French prefect; the poetess and veteran Congresswoman, Madame Sarojini Naidu, Gandhi's principal female disciple, who calls him Mickey Mouse; India's second-best-known citizen, handsome, socialistic Jawaharlal Nehru...
...poetry Poetess Moore once wrote: "I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle." Her own poems are practically fiddle-free...
They are written in a kind of perfected prose-a prose stripped of all discursive verbiage and whittled down into functional verse shapes. Thus, of a hen mocking bird engaged in feeding her brood, Poetess Moore writes...
Patience, with its superlatives, firmness and loyalty and faith, is as useful to man as tightly fitting scales are to an artichoke. By conveying such pragmatic truths, Marianne Moore's work, to a degree unique in contemporary poetry, inspires a fresh moral appreciation of the world. In poetess Moore American utilitarianism has found its bird of paradise...