Word: sita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SQUAPS, THE MOONLING, by Ursina Ziegler, translated from the German by Barbara Kowal Gollob, illustrated by Sita Jucker (Atheneum; $4.95). Apollo 11 literary fallout about an astronaut who returns from the moon with a funny little creature clinging to his space suit. His children make it their playmate and call it Squaps (the sound that answers all questions on the moon). Squaps enjoys the earth, especially his discovery of water -from shower baths, sprinklers and watering cans. And then comes the next full moon...
...some Habaneras manage to look surprisingly chic, sewing their own miniskirts and making their own net stockings. Eating out is expensive and popular, and when a restaurant adds a new dish to the standard menu of fish and rice, the news spreads quickly. Cubans call Havana La Parásita, the parasite living off the land. Each year the city dies a little more but, for the regime, Havana is not where the fate of Communism on the island will be decided...
...that attacks the "socialism" of Nehru's Congress Party and calls for the kind of individualism sought in the U.S. by Dwight Eisenhower. The party's venerable founder is Chakravatri Rajagopalachari, first native-born Governor General of India, who lyrically describes the maharani as "a combination of Sita, Lakshmi and the Rani of Jhansi...
...Sita, wife of Rama, was kidnaped by Ravana, but later proved by a trial by fire that she was still virtuous. Lakshmi was the consort of Vishnu and the goddess of wealth and luck. The Rani of Jhansi fought the British in the 1857 Indian mutiny, was killed in battle...