Word: clive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marwaris have expanded into speculation, finance and industry. They moved into jute milling by dispatching platoons of Marwari workers into British mills to learn the technical secrets the British had refused to share. Calcutta's Marwaris moved from the shop-crowded Burrabazar to the financial district's Clive Street, where they set up curb markets and soon moved onto the exchange. Marwaris are India's best bookmakers, so fond of betting that they will wager on the sex of an unborn child or the number of pips in a tangerine flake...
...company the treacherous confidence, on reaching Broadway, to overplay characters that were already over written to the point of caricature. The cast also knows where all the laughs are buried, and it squirrels them out with stagy anticipatory glee. Bruce Prochnik's Oliver is singularly unaffecting, but Clive Revill's Fagin glints with eccentricity. This Fagin is not very Jewish (he has been viewed without alarm by representatives of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith), but he is a strangely epicene miser whose furtive batlike swoopings on his treasure box and triple-tempo...
...public, Clive T. Miller '59 is apt to be rather offhand about his first novel, This Passing Night, which has just been published. At a reading he gave at Lowell House last week, he described the book as "two separate story lines, one that follows a group of students that have graduated from Harvard, and one that follows a teen-age gang in Brooklyn. The Harvard line takes place in Cambridge and Europe and has all the romantic stuff; the gang line has all the rapes and dirty stuff. Each chapter in the book is a sort of separate short...
...have either taken the book too seriously, he feels, or not seriously enough. "Some guy from the Detroit Free Press spent the whole time damning the jacket design, and yelling at me for having my age on the flyleaf. The only quote he took from the book was, 'Clive T. Miller was born in Brooklyn in 1938.... That annoyed me. But a reviewer in Pensacola, Florida, took the thing completely seriously. The review said 'this is a hard-hitting, two-fisted novel; there's a rape, there's a rumble, and intimate letters from a young girl left alone...
...Clive F. Foss '61, has won the Charles Eliot Norton Fellowship in the Classics Department for a year of study in Greece...