Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dispatched from the post office to bring help, Jack takes to the roofs. When he gets through a trap door in his own attic, with British soldiers at his heels and others coming up the stairs, the household is assembled for a wake for little Mollser Gogan, dead of consumption. Quick-witted Nora saves her husband's life by hiding his gun in Mollser's coffin. When the British soldiers break in a moment later, Jack is squatting beside it, playing cards with his cronies...
...absence. This time his new offering most favored was a temple dance called Tandrava Nrittya. Shankar became the God Shiva, whirling and gesturing, creating the universe only to destroy it. When his wife died, Shiva fell into grief and a state of meditation. Reincarnated as Parvati, she tried to wake him. When the Elephant-Demon, Gajasura, menaced her, Shiva, awake at last, came to Parvati's defense. In the great fight that followed, the god and the demon threw winds and lightning at each other, the forces of Earth, Air and Sky. Even Shiva's arms which...
...Court as there used to be from the sidewalk on the other side when the boys would come rolling home late from whatever it was they had found to come rolling home late from. There used to be uncouth songs and shouts from them sometimes and I would wake up and mutter to myself. Now the only noise that bothers me is the sparrows under the caves and in the ivy near my window. The sparrows start their lively twittering with the first rays of the (to me) invisible sun. It is usually more unpleasant than pleasant to wake...
...start to walk faster. . . . When I reach the corner, I find the street still stretches before me, deserted, straight. I keep going at top speed. . . . The sound of running feet behind me comes nearer and nearer, I know a hand will touch me in a moment-then I wake...
...admit there is something wrong with their performance, that they fail in their simplest task, which is to get people into church. To rekindle themselves and their followers, the Federal Council of Churches sent out a "Preaching Mission" of 70 crack pulpiteers last autumn. Last week, in the wake of the Mission's Manhattan windup (TIME, Dec. 14), the Federal Council held its biennial meeting in Asbury Park...