Unaware of the lapidary explanation for their father's transformation — he goes from Wordsworthian paterfamilias to a despot who beats his children and cheats his neighbors — 12-year-old Charles and his 5-year-old sister, Unity, seek a remedy to Billy's disease by traveling to the Pixies' Holt, home of tiny supernatural creatures and an example of the Fantasyland that the British do so well.
It is baffling that the avowed "tribalist" who prioritized "ethnic unity over national unity" and sought to "put (his Kikuyu) house in order before (telling) others to do so... .. has escaped cogent and sustained criticism of his time as Kenya's president even though there is ample evidence in the public domain that offer blistering indictments on Kenya's "founding father".
He twice (339, 356) exiled the influential orthodox bishop of Alexandria, but the religious unity he sought was short-lived.
"Nobody wants the child-care allowance," opposition parties wrote in a petition put forward on Wednesday in a rare show of unity that sought to persuade lawmakers to reject the bill.
He meant this as a rhetorical antidote to polarization, but the references were so dated — scenery left over from Greatest Generation documentaries — that it made the unity Obama sought seem like a very distant memory.
While most members of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) favored Iraqi-UAR unity, Qasim sought to keep Iraq independent and resented Nasser's large popular base in the country.
"The people we met in Nyal in Unity State sought refuge on small islands surrounded by water.
His publications include Seasons of the Spirit (1983), One Light for One World (1988), and The Unity We Seek (1989).
And the truth is that Frankie is an enormously popular Pope, one who has done much to drive that unity he seeks.
But on Saturday at the United Nations, while harshly criticizing the Taliban for daring to ask God's blessing before killing the innocent, he made a subtle religious allusion to the unity he seeks between Muslims, Christians and Jews.
