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...Typical. The most successful of the Marwaris is in many ways the least typical. G. D. (for Ghanshyam Das) Birla not only controls an empire of 350 concerns (textiles, automaking, chemicals, banking), but is one of Prime Minister Nehru's closest confidants and a member of and heavy contributor to Nehru's Congress Party. A tall and ascetic man, Birla financed Gandhi, gives enormous amounts to charity, and has opened many schools and hospitals. Many Marwaris, respected only for their business shrewdness, now long for the social standing that Birla has earned for himself, are sending their sons...
...thesis topic is British policy towards Palestine in 1930, reviews The Balfour Declaration by Leonard Stein. Werner L. Gundersheimer, a Junior Fellow at work on a book in sixteenth century French history, reviews a study of Jewish-Gentile relations in medieval and modern times. And Michael Schwartz, a frequent contributor to these columns and editor of The Harvard Review, assesses Letting Go by Philip Roth. Only Schwartz, who has a much more difficult task than the others in reviewing fiction, is not completely convincing. He discusses at length, and very knowledgeably, "Roth's failure." Then Schwartz proceeds to remark, almost...
Once a Trotskyite. In the past, Macdonald was best known for his political commentary. After a youthful stint with FORTUNE and The Partisan Review, he started his own magazine, Politics, in 1944 and was its principal contributor. Once (briefly) a Trotskyite, he now proclaimed himself a philosophical anarchist and a pacifist. The times, Macdonald wrote, called for "attention, reporting exposure, analysis, satire, indignation, lamentation." In the five years Politics was published, Macdonald supplied all of these in abundance. Long before it was permitted in liberal circles, Macdonald was an outspoken antiCommunist. Like George Orwell, he directed his fiercest fire...
...addition to the expenditure reports, the law required that the candidates' committees identify the names and addresses of all people making campaign contributions of more than $25. No single contributor could give more than $3000 to any one campaign. This provision was designed to broaden the base of political support...
...magazines were rated by the intensity of their intellectual commitment, The Current (of Catholicism and Contemporary Culture) would rank among the highest. In few journals will one find more self-criticism, personal involvement, and sense of intellectual crisis. In the present issue almost every contributor peeps out from behind his sturdy prose to betray concern as well as expertise...