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He was a dandy at sea and ashore, with his monocle and checked pants and exquisite conversation making him as rare as an albatross among the lumbering illiterates who chose to go to sea. Through a fierce exercise of will and pride he made himself a ship's master, but...
Died. Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, 63, round-faced, tempestuous champion of India's 60 million untouchables and principal author of India's constitution (adopted in 1949), which makes discrimination against untouchables a crime; in New Delhi. Himself an untouchable (and thus so repugnant to some high-caste Hindus...
These goings-on carry the girls to the unstoppered hell of arty cocktail parties and the drawing-room purgatories of upper-caste Britons living beyond their unearned incomes. The book's brittle, so-weary-of-it-all lament, which only a Bea Lillie could salvage, too often turns the...
We are proudly a people with no sense of class or caste. We judge no man by his name or inheritance, but by what he does, and for what he stands. And so likewise do we judge other nations. There can be no second-class nations before the law of...
It is difficult to say just what Penn will scratch off as it reappraises itself. Certainly not the fraternities, although possibly their restrictive clauses. Probably not the second-class status of its commuting multitudes, but possibly the low caste of coeds. Big time football is gone, and fraternity blasts are...