Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ashes of Jawaharlal Nehru have long since disappeared into the silt of the Ganges, carrying with them the faint shadow of the rose he always wore in his lapel. Gone with the Pandit is the image of India as a moral bulwark of the "nonaligned" world, a pious mediator between the great powers. Gone with the jaunty jodhpurs and preachy pronouncements is the hope that India might soon be an economic success. Gone, too, are the pride and the confidence that inspired India in its formative years. India without Nehru stands dispirited and disillusioned, a land without elan where...
View from the Falls. Shastri's compulsion to compromise was better applied in the great January language crisis. In that month, India adopted Hindi (which only 40% of Indians speak) as the nation's official language. Southern Indians - speaking mostly Tamil or Telugu-rose up in a wave of riots, murders and suicides to protest so blatant a move on the part of the "arrogant" Indo-Aryans of the north. Shastri muddled through several weeks of bloodshed, finally decided to rescind the January order and for the moment retain English as well as 14 southern languages. "We have...
...auguries are favorable. Industry reports last week showed that auto sales in July rose 18% to a record, and that production set a new high for the eighth straight month; even in the turnover month of August, production is expected to climb 58% over last year. Some auto plants have been working three full shifts, seven days a week, yet still cannot outpace demand. For the full year, U.S. automakers expect to build 9,100,000 cars for the best year in history; that would be 18% more than last year and 65% more than in 1961. Such a spectacular...
...year, which means that Detroit can now bank on an annual re placement market of more than 6,000,000 cars. More and more people are also tempted to trade in their old cars for new ones because used-car prices are high; sales of used cars in June rose 3% to a ten-year peak...
Lauren Friedman's Victoria is a bit monotonous once she moves into her male disguise, but the part does not seem to allow for much variety. Gloria Maddox's exaggerated Rose is admirable...