Word: warriors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...argument for Indian control of Kashmir relates to what New Delhi officials call the "fissiparous tendencies" of their country. If Kashmir could secede by holding a plebiscite, the argument runs, there would be nothing to prevent Madras or Kerala or any other state from doing the same thing. The warrior Sikhs of Punjab have long dreamed of an independent nation. In fact, a Sikh leader, Sant Fateh Singh, was scheduled last week to begin a fast that would be followed by self-immolation, to force Indian acceptance of Sikh autonomy. In deference to the war emergency, Singh has postponed both...
Cobb's reduction by more than two-thirds was engineered not out of solicitude for his opponents but by his desire to stay alive. In 1962, heart trouble slowed the happy warrior down; he became so short of wind that he had to sit down on two chairs after every ten steps. Manfully, he tried to curb his appetite; no longer did he wolf down 15 chickens at a sitting. But doctors said he needed stricter discipline. When he waddled into the Medical College of Georgia's Clinical Investigation Unit in Augusta to volunteer for obesity research...
...after defeating King Henry III at the battle of Lewes, Simon de Montfort, the ambitious French-born Earl of Leicester, summoned the barons, bishops and warrior knights of England to a national colloquy in London. To muster popular support for his cause among the new commercial classes, Montfort also took the unprecedented step of inviting each of the young nation's townships to send "two of their more discreet, lawful and trustworthy citizens or burgesses." By thus giving commoners a voice in government for the first time, Montfort, as Winston Churchill wrote, "lighted a fire never to be quenched...
Gampu leaves his native village, pursuing a man he believes to be his young daughter's killer-a defeated warrior who was told by a conniving witch doctor that he could regain power by eating the heart of a child. Before the witch doctor is brought down from his clifftop retreat and exposed as a fraud, Gampu has been clapped into a Johannesburg jail, charged with attempted murder. His friend in need, sent over by Legal Aid, is Stanley Baker, whose wife (Juliet Prowse) keeps prodding him to "care about people." Notwithstanding its bizarre and colorful appeal, Dingaka ends...
Christiane Rochefort's first novel, Warrior's Rest, won the Prix de la Nouvelle Vague in 1959. That book told, with almost clinical clarity, of the inexorable destruction of a young woman who surrenders herself to an insatiable, mad alcoholic. It is not likely that Rochefort's new novel will win any prizes. Celine is a casually wicked misfit who cannot abide middle-class posturings. So she marries Philippe, a stuffed middle-class shirt who is "obsessed with the Absolute the way some people are with golf." Middle-class sex with Philippe only accentuates Celine...