Word: vow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shall never be faithful to men," the great Russian beauty Lou Andreas-Salomé confided to her diary. It was a vow she kept. Her passions, she felt, were too grand for any one man, even a Nietzsche or a Rilke. When she was deprived of a lover one night, she compensated by eating one of his letters. One man once favored by Lou, recounting the affair 50 years later, was still dazzled. "There was something terrifying about her embrace," he recalled; "elemental, archaic. She was completely amoral and yet very pious, a vampire and a child...
...Vow Forgotten. At the time of partition, Kashmir, like all of India's 562 princely states, was given the choice of joining either Pakistan or India. The fact that 77% of Kashmir's 4,200,000 people were Moslem pointed to control by Moslem Pakistan. But though he had signed preliminary trade and administrative agreements with Pakistan, Kashmir's Hindu maharajah began to hedge. Angered by his failure to accede to Pakistan, hordes of Pakistani "volunteers" swept into Kashmir to establish Pakistan's claim to the land. In terror, the Hindu ruler opted to join India...
Nehru soon forgot that vow, for it became obvious that Kashmir would vote either for independence or accession to Pakistan. Indian Kashmir's Moslem ruler, Sheik Mohammed Abdullah, an old friend of Nehru's and a fiery Kashmiri nationalist, confused things by starting to pro mote a local independence movement. India clapped Sheik Abdullah into jail in 1953 and introduced a series of repressive measures to halt other nationalist or pro-Pakistan movements. Except for three months in 1958, Sheik Abdullah has languished in prison ever since, was last week on trial on charges of conspiracy to overthrow...
...mythical context, but too many possible pairs will fit. Does the woman try to hold the man back, or is she pressing him forward? X and A cannot resolve the ambiguity. Then M approaches to reveal that they are looking at Charles III and his wife taking the marriage vow; their dress is merely a convention. M talks on rather haughtily, and an incidental statement of his provides the bridge to reality--the card game. X's voice finishes the statue anecdote, while the scene shifts from the cards to him and A; they walks outside and find the statue...
...early one morning in his carriage to sit for his portrait to Mr. Stuart. Not knowing his dwelling, he stopped a country man seated on his cart, and enquired for Mr. Stuart's house. The country man looked steadfastly at him. 'It is the President, I vow,' said he to himself, and instinctively taking off his hat. he gave three loud and hearty cheers, and drove off, leaving the President unanswered and astonished.'' What Stuart produced from these sittings was a bust portrait on wood. The painting used for this week's cover...