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Like most Englishmen of his caste, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan frowns on public displays ot deep emotion, but when the spirit moves him he has a ringing voice and a rolling turn of phrase that can strike sparks in even the most phlegmatic audience. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: A Vision of Strength | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

"Terribly Hindu." In the current issue of Religion in Life, David G. Moses, Christian principal of Hislop College at Nagpur and a practiced interpreter between East and West, credits the British with opening "the whole wealth of Western inductive science and knowledge of Western political institutions to the wondering gaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Hindu Revival | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

Under the impact of rationalism and religious competition, reform began. Its first leaders were Ramakrishna (1836-86) and his disciple, Vivekananda (1863-1902). Mystical Ramakrishna, who said he reached union with God through Islam and Christianity as well as Hinduism, presented Vedanta as a religion of direct experience rather than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Hindu Revival | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

"It is urged, that this maintenance of separate schools tends to deepen and perpetuate the odious distinction of caste, founded in a deep rooted prejudice in public opinion.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sarah Roberts | 10/3/1956 | See Source »

Apart from watching Author Shute trying to decide who are the less cultured, the Yanks or the Aussies, the reader may have some fun with the locale: Laragh Station, a sheep "run" operated by the Brothers Regan. They are graduate gunmen of the Irish Republican Army who are busy populating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wide Open Species | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

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