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...divan with a brightly colored, hand-loomed bolster from the Punjab. Clubs are one British social heritage that upper-class Indians will not revolt against, perhaps because they were excluded in the days of the British raj. Today high-caste Indians are just as cutting to members of lesser castes as the Englishman was to "wogs." Indian intellectual life has fared a bit better. Today, 45 million children are in school, v. 14 million at independence, and though the nation is still only 24% literate, it is reading more, and from broader sources. When a group of young Indians educated...
This bit of gimmickry works, and works beautifully, and so does almost everything Ritchietries. Furthermore, the cast is competent in the lesser roles and excellent in the three most important one--three physicists who have been confined to an asylum. This all adds up to the best production Boston has seen this summer...
...flooding through the Sudan to the rebels in the neighboring Congo, Anya Nya guerrillas showed up in force a fortnight ago at the provincial capital of Wau (see map), tried to storm the army garrison. According to the government, the attack was beaten back and 72 terrorists were killed. Lesser battles were reported in several villages, but it was at Juba, the south's largest city (pop. 40,000), that the war's real fury was felt...
...outstanding soloists, chamber players and orchestral musicians come together for eight summer weeks to work and study in an atmosphere far removed from the usual professional pressures. Many turn down lucrative offers so that they can spend the season at Marlboro playing neglected or unknown works by famous and lesser-known composers. Serkin describes Marlboro as "the accumulation of great talents who inspire each other without competition in a spirit of unselfishness-which is not only rare but idealistic...
...President signs many proclamations, Lyndon Johnson last week told his White House guests. Some of them are "of great significance." Others, he continued in a monument to restraint, are of "somewhat lesser significance and import." The President just wanted to make clear that he thought that the proclamation he was about to sign-designating next Sept. 13 as World Law Day-Was in the great-significance category. The proclamation, said he, "expresses something of the greatest importance about the purposes of the American people and the purposes of the American nation. And that is our commitment to, and our quest...