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Beer at the Table. The children were reacting to a problem centuries older than Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (1912), in which he observed: "It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him," and as up-to-date as a...
Divided by caste, religion and geography, the Indians have leaders but no solid front. The Africans and their rabble-rousers accuse them of bleeding the country to send money to India, of profiteering, and of binding ignorant blacks to usurious installment-credit schemes.
The story begins in Benares, where the family has taken quarters in a poor but respectable part of the city. The father, a priest and a scholar, puts in a long day as a religious teacher on the banks of the holy Ganges. The mother struggles to make a home...
In 1952, Bournemouth Tories confidently elected to Parliament Publisher Nigel Nicolson, son of British Authors Sir Harold Nicolson and Victoria Sackville-West. Tory Nicolson, 42, has all the proper caste marks (Eton, Oxford, Grenadier Guards), but he also likes to think for himself. First he expressed his opposition to capital...
Plumbing the Japanese mentality for the causes of young people's death wishes, Psychiatrist Takeyama argues: the Confucian precept of unquestioning obedience to elders and superiors was deliberately perverted by the Tokugawa Shogunate (which ruled Japan from 1603 to 1868) to maintain a rigid caste system. Obedience is still...