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"The Idea Matters." In his writing and lectures, Otto sounded far from autocratic, sought to define "monarchy's place in the atomic age." Said he: "The new form of monarchy might well be elective-from the judiciary, perhaps. Its primary duty would be the maintenance of the rule of...
Bald, gross, and illiterate Emile a Tae, 64, half-caste Tahitian son of Painter Paul Gauguin, used to let tourists take his picture for a few francs, just enough to keep himself in beer. Now, at London's prestigious O'Hana Gallery, his own childlike oil-on-canvas...
Thanks to the nation's miraculous eco nomic boom. West Germans today are more concerned with paychecks than with princely comings and goings. But the country's economic and social transformation has failed notably to produce a unified, national Fuhrungsschicht (leadership layer) in place of the old aristocratic...
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The caste system in India.
No philosophical thicket seems denser to the Western eye than Hinduism, and no country more confusing than India. In this long, densely packed novel of the intellectual and emotional odyssey of a high-caste Brahman, Indian Author Raja Rao offers an intimate look at Indian family life seen from the...