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...Trivial . . . were your reviewer's rather snide remarks [TIME, April 8] about my "sub-historical" stuff (in Intimations of Eve), and my Tarzanish and Alley-Oopian portrayals; but of greater moment is his deft effort to conceal his ignorance and suggest his erudition with such remarks: "Experts may wish to argue . . . whether the principle of the canoe was grasped before the principle of the baby...
What Price Duty? When the local police constable told Sub-Inspector Ghulam Husain that Pyari had died and been cremated the same day, he hurried over to see Gopal Singh's father. "It's my duty," said he mournfully, "to enter . . . a charge of murder against your son." "Would anything convince you that your duty was different?" asked the father. Sub-Inspector Ghulam murmured something about 1,500 rupees ($450). "You can get to hell out of here!" barked the old man. "He'll hang," warned Ghulam...
Gopal's family was rich and powerful, but Sub-Inspector Ghulam realized that, having lost his bribe, he must not lose his case. So he kidnapped a member of Gopal's household and brutally third-degreed him until the servant talked. But Ghulam did not hand over this information to his superiors ("It is an axiom in Indian courts that the police are never to be believed"). He sent it to the dead woman's family, who were as rich and powerful as Gopal...
...beliefs before the law as a matter of right and not as a matter of favor. I believe in the absolute separation of Church and State." Even those who safeguard their orthodoxy most carefully need not believe that Church and State, though their union be a Christian ideal sub specie aeternitatis, can be prudently wed until the final earthly triumph of the City of God-which may perhaps arrive just before Judgment...
...that all the meat started to loosen from the bones." (At this point. Defendant Joachim von Ribbentrop winced, tore off his earphones, hung his head.) Qappelen continued, telling of a trip across Germany to Dachau. Said he: "We were five days without food and water in open cars in sub-zero weather. About half the trainload was dead by the last day. ... In Munich, 100 of us prisoners, all looking like corpses, were marched through the streets...