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Died. Tsunego Baba, 80, longtime champion of a free Japanese press as president (1945-51) of the nation's third largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun (circ. 2,133,000), of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Tokyo...
...intertwining of two processes-the coming of age of a sensitive .girl and the coming of age of an equally sensitive nation-makes a compelling novel. Santha Rama Rau, who writes English (Home to India) with the flourish of conquest, portrays newly freed India through the mind of Indira ("Baba") Goray, daughter (as is Novelist Rau) of a rich and respected Indian politician. The story transpires in Bombay, in the hill country of the north, and among the elaborate Victorian palaces of the Indian rich on the Malabar Hill. Baba and her sophisticated schoolgirl friend turn their wary eyes...
Dinner After Dinner. As Baba moves to her formal Indian betrothal, the characters of Nehru's India pass her eye. With the cruelty of youth and the precision of familiarity, Baba ticks them off. There is the strangely pathetic princeling drinking his schooners of champagne and serving a New Year's meal consisting of a complete Western dinner followed by a complete Indian dinner. There are the bony peasants, the compounds full of servants and relatives related in intricate ways, the Congress politicians sidling for jobs, Goanese musicians with their "desperate nattiness," mystical followers of that "tough realist...
...Baba and her friend have a private word-hysteria-for anything of which they disapprove. It is a word they use particularly often in reference to Americans. Yet Baba finds herself entranced by two Americans-Courtney and Alix Nichols, who betray the un-Indian heresy of being in love in the romantic Western pattern. Alix is also a recognizable U.S. type in that when Indian servants place a chair of honor for her, she insists on sitting on the ground. She will love the Indians, if it kills her-and them. Soon, of course, she is an expert on saris...
...clock: Baba Yaga chases Hugh McLean across the tundra up to the Decembrist revolt or thereabouts. The speedy trip is accomplished in Sever 31, and is called Slavic 149. Downstairs before lunch Faust and Mephistopheles will inhabit Sever 1 as Professor Atkins offers his biennial course on the Faust legend. German is required, but the reading list is not too long...