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MOHANDAS GANDHI called them "harijans" (children of God), but most Indians still treat the country's 84 million Untouchables more like his rejects. Nearly 38 years after Gandhi launched his campaign to erase Untouchability, God's children are still locked in bestial poverty and ignorance. "Even after two decades of independence," Prime Minister Indira Gandhi admitted last week at a Congress Party meeting in Dehra Dun, "Untouchability persists." India, she said, must "hang her head in shame...
...spoils and drove north to San Diego. We stopped at the Chuck Wagon, a minor legend in Southern California. The Chuck Wagon is the last of the great all-you-can-eaters, with the juiciest everything in town. We hadn't eaten all day, and spent a solid, lusting, bestial two hours going back for more and more food. After sitting around the table for a while to tell each other how much money the restaurant lost on us, we waddled off to the car and headed for Los Angeles...
...might wish to recall the thought of Dostoevsky in The Brothers Karamazov, "People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel...
...merely a piece of fraudulent and fearsomely noisy theater of outrage. O'Horgan ceaselessly has his actresses jumping up and entwining their legs around any available male waist; and his notion of "new cinema" is to photograph scenes of idyllic love in slow motion and scenes of bestial passion through a red filter. Such effects make Futz about as avant-garde as a Head & Shoulders commercial...
Said G.K.: "Those bones are far too few and fragmentary and dubious to fill up the whole of the vast void that does in reason and in reality lie between man and his bestial ancestors, if they were his ancestors . . . But the effect on popular science was to produce a complete and even complex figure, finished down to the last details of hair and habits. He was given a name as if he were an ordinary historical character. People talked of Pithecanthropus as of Pitt or Fox or Napoleon . . . A detailed drawing was reproduced, carefully shaded, to show that...