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The mutiny itself-mostly horror but also part farce-began, as the schoolbooks say, with the news that the new type of rifle cartridge issued to the East India Company's troops was greased with beef and pork fat. One would be horrible to cow-venerating Hindus; the other...
Old Laws. William Faulkner has an unabashed sense of caste, honor and history. To him Appomattox was only yesterday, and he feels deeply "our gallant lost irrevocable unreconstructible debacle." This sense gives the tragic dimension to his novels, even when he appears merely to be telling elaborate stories of a...
The Brattle has timed Casablanca's reshowing wisely; the picture was filmed back in Humphrey Bogart's prime, and before Ingrid Bergman became an untouchable to the gossip-columnist caste. Just now, however, the temperers of public sentiment have shed tears for the late, great Bogie, because he is dead...
The depicted episodes of Rommel's career only demonstrate the stern yet cavalier character the public expects in a military hero, and leave his brilliance unsung. They are held together by the conflict between his professional conscience and personal consciousness. Rommel, who believed, "My function in life...to carry out...
The King. Many of his listeners in multilingual India, though they cheered and clapped mightily, could understand scarcely a word that he said in English or Hindi. Fastidiously avoiding all the local grass-roots issues for which he has no taste-the caste problem, anti-cow slaughter, communalism, astrology-Nehru...