Word: sons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comeback was due in part to the vigorous campaign she waged to portray herself as a defenseless woman persecuted by a vengeful government bent on destroying her and her son Sanjay, even at the expense of ignoring India's monumental problems. As both Charan Singh and his predecessor, Morarji Desai, had been imprisoned by Mrs. Gandhi, there was perhaps some truth in her charge, though there is ample evidence of her government's misdeeds. She has conceded that there were excesses during her Emergency, but she has stubbornly refused to apologize for her stringent measures in a time...
Less than three years after she had been swept from office by an Indian public outraged by the Emergency and the heavyhanded execution of the sterilization policy promoted by her son Sanjay, Mrs. Gandhi could once more be the "daughter of the nation," successor to her father Jawaharlal Nehru and head of the political dynasty that has helped shape India's destiny for more than 50 years...
...urged Leach to seek lower inheritance taxes on farms that pass from one generation to another. He said the price of land is so high (up to $3,000 per acre in this area) that young farmers can rarely buy a farm and those who inherit one, as his son Dwight will one day, are hurt by heavy taxes...
...pathos of the discarded chrysalis, George Segal's plaster figures have kept their place on the edge of modernism for the better part of 20 years. They have also shown how art changes one's reading of other art. In the early 1960s, when Segal -the son of a New Jersey chicken farmer -first emerged as a sculptor, he was identified with Pop art. This happened because some of his tableaux had an aggressive, urban character and used real props: stacks of oil cans, winking beer neons, even the inside of a scrapped subway car, with seats, hanging...
...unfamiliar pattern." Bowles may believe this, but his stories regularly do the reverse. They fix the attention on beauty and then suggest the frightfulness within. Pages from Cold Point, Bowles' best, eeriest tale, paints an idyllic Jamaican setting. But the narrator soon learns that his 16-year-old son is homosexual and has been cruising in dangerous native waters. Violence must be forestalled. The father is too civilized to confront the boy with what he knows, nor can he tell him to stop. So he allows his son to seduce...