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Three shows in the past three weeks are instructive examples. Stag Movie is a flea-brained bedroom farce played in the nude. It is not without its funny moments, but the yawns are more frequent simply because Oh! Calcutta! preempted the field, and was and is the best of the barest. A rock musical, Soon, a kind of hairless Hair, lasted exactly three performances. What was wrong with it? Soon was Late...
Urban Terrorism. The government will probably decide to hold state elections in West Bengal to coincide with the national elections. The turbulent state has been administered directly from New Delhi since its Communist-led government resigned last March. Throughout West Bengal, and especially in its capital city, Calcutta, Naxalite terrorism is on the rise (TIME, Aug. 24), and so is the resultant police repression. The Naxalite movement, so named because it originated four years ago in the remote Naxalbari region near the Himalayas, has spread to several parts of India but is now concentrated among the embittered students and unemployed...
...particularly vicious assassination, presumably perpetrated by Naxalites, occurred last week. Dr. Gopal Sen, 58-year-old vice chancellor of Calcutta's Jadavpur University, a center of Naxalite unrest, was pounced upon by a group of young men as he took his evening walk, bludgeoned with steel bars and stabbed four times. He was scheduled to have retired from his university post the following...
...description of Cuba which the film nowhere objectively opposes. His oppressive sense of the alien city with its crowds, characteristic of the most hackneyed modern Western fiction, stands unchallenged as a description of Havana under socialism. Progressive film-makers do better than that: take Louis Malle, whose recent Calcutta tries to understand great masses of people instead of shying away from them...
Today the order numbers more than 600 nuns, most of them Indians. They operate 26 centers for the poor in Calcutta alone, 70 more in other cities in India, and homes in Ceylon, Tanzania, Jordan, Venezuela, Great Britain and Australia-as well as the one in Rome. As for Mother Teresa herself, who at 60 is back in India and is an Indian citizen, she still spends much of her time working the orders regular 16-hour day among the dying at the gate of the temple of Kali...