Often The Nation ignored what was happening in India. When the magazine took notice, it usually backed Nehru as the moderate between communists on the left and Hindu conservatives on the right.
From the perspective of the freezing-cold trenches the idea of the season of peace and goodwill seemed surrealistic. Yet parcels and Christmas gifts began to arrive in the trenches and there was a strange atmosphere in the air.
Though Hanukkah now is a Jewish counterpart to the Christian holiday of Christmas, it commemorates Judaism’s bare survival of an attempt to obliterate it by a Hellenistic king.
If you could have dinner with any three people (dead or alive), who would you choose and why? "Washington, Lincoln, and FDR to discuss wartime leadership."
“For decades, polio terrified America, killing and crippling at random. It lurked anywhere, came on as easily as a cold. Any fever, any stiff neck or sore throat caused hysteria.”
