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...Visiting Gethsemani Abbey this fall, I spent two hours on the guest house roof watching the Trappists (Father Merton included) "employing energies in direct relation to the needs of the hour," the needs being to harvest a crop of tomatoes. These monks, who would put any union-scale group of laborers (or choir Benedictines) to shame with the zeal of their manual labor, would certainly be startled to hear that to become Trappists they had first to be members of an elite...
Charge & Countercharge. Pakistan, like Egypt, lives by irrigation: its rivers are its life. When the Punjab's canals yield plentiful water, Pakistani peasants harvest three good crops a year; when the canals run dry, the peasants are apt to starve. Pakistan's complaint is that India has dried up eleven vital canals by diverting water from the Punjabi head-streams to its irrigation schemes...
...Aberdare Mountains-the Mau Mau stronghold. By creating a Malaya-style dead zone, patrolled day & night, the planters hope to deprive the Mau Mau of food, weapons and recruits, ultimately starve them into submission. The trouble with eviction is that the settlers themselves depend on the Kikuyus to harvest their crops, dig their wells and cook their food...
More Moslems (68 million) live in the Republic of Indonesia than in any other nation. They are mostly docile peasants, content to harvest their rubber, rice, sugar, tea and coffee, but on one subject the Indonesians are as explosive as their island volcanoes: religion. Islam provided both the force and the fervor that ousted the Dutch in 1949; today, a fanatic guerrilla organization, Darul Islam (the Abode of Islam) threatens the unsteady republic with chaos and civil...
...ivory elephants to embroidered shawls, and a full gallery of 172 contemporary paintings. In subject, the canvases range from old Hindu rituals to present-day Indian life, but in style they are uniformly modern. The artists show lithe water carriers posed like ballerinas, gay washerwomen and prancing bullocks, frenzied harvest dancers, impressionist landscapes, expressionistic fantasies and, here & there, even a nude. The net result is a bit as if India's artists had listened carefully to lectures from Picasso, Matisse & Co., then gone to work on Eastern subjects with Western ideas. Winter Park, Fla. will see the show next...