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...Calcutta (Lawrence Welk and Orchestra; Dot). That old peddler of "Champagne Music"-better known in the trade as "sweet and moanin'," "holy chorus" or "sweet corn"-fields his first big hit single. With no lyrics or melody of any distinction, Welk's harpsichord-accordion arrangement has a slogging beat that apparently sets the jukebox crowd vibrating. The jocks have even taken to calling Bandsman Welk "Larry...
Since devout Hindus refuse to kill aging cows, thousands are turned loose to wander through villages and towns, exercising their uncontested right to root in any garden. In Calcutta, great humped Brahman bulls still stalk majestically across streets, bringing traffic to a screeching halt as they nose in a vegetable dealer's baskets. In some smaller cities, humble people may still be seen following cows to catch and sip the animals' urine in the belief that it surpasses in potency all other means of purifying soul and body. Hindu businessmen support old cows' homes more readily than...
...what he is doing, but an artist who reveals what he is. And what Sellers is, solely and invariably, is the character he is portraying. In playing Shaw's exotic sawbones, he employs all manner of visual props: a purple complexion, a sweaty old fur cap, a superb Calcutta accent that sounds as though he had swallowed a noisy fly as he opened his mouth to talk. Nevertheless, the makeup helps to make, not a music-hall figure of fun, but a man-a gentle, warm, naive and wonderfully decent man. Sellers obviously loves him, and so will everybody...
...Asian Venice filled with hundreds of temples rising above the sluggish klongs like gilt and gaudy dreams. India, for most tourists, is limited to Bombay (where they land), Delhi (where they go to see the Taj Mahal at nearby Agra), Banaras (for its burning funeral ghats) and Calcutta (famed for slums and the Black Hole). Many tourist wonders lie off the beaten track but lack good hotels. Exceptions: the rose-pink city of Jaipur and Purion the Bay of Bengal, only 18 miles from the Black Pagoda at Konarak, famed for its delicately erotic carvings of gods and goddesses. Malaya...
Radhakrishnan, who has been for several years the vice-President of the Republic of India, leader of the Indian delegation to UNESCO, and the chairman of UNESCO's executive board, has always been devoted to education and teaching. He was professor of Philosophy at the Universities of Madras, Mysore, Calcutta, Benares, and later for many years was Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics at Oxford University. He has done yeoman service to Hindu philosophy and religion, and has contributed a great deal to the study of religion in general. Among his early works are two volumes on Indian philosophy...