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...Just Craze for Foreign." Against rural resignation stands the excitement of India's great metropolises. Each of the country's major cities-Bombay, Calcutta, New Delhi and Madras-has its own similarities and its own distinctions. Calcutta and Bombay are linked in their visual splendor and their vicious slums; wealth and poverty exist cool cheek by grizzled jowl. Madras, with its burgeoning Hindu evangelism (backed by Shastri's strongman, Congress Party President Kumaraswami Kamaraj), is less metropolitan but more leisurely. Where Bombay is sparked by its Parsi businessmen (descended from 8th century Persian fire worshipers), Madras...
...Import restrictions have made any foreign item desirable, including electric mixers, irons, refrigerators, hair dryers and record players. West Indian Author V. S. Naipaul, visiting India for the first time, records in his book Area of Darkness the xenophile plaint of a Delhi housewife: "I am just craze for foreign, just craze for foreign...
...latest joke craze is inventing names for imaginary discothèques. Thus, they dance the real Watusi at the Belgian Congo-Go, do the monkey at the Malay Archipelago-Go. There's a Santo Domingo-Go, a San Diego-Go, and a Pago Pago-Go. Paris's Left Bank has a new fruggery called the Vincent Van Gogh-Gogh (it's just across the street from the more famous Deux Magots-Go). Duke Ellington's new place is called the Mood Indigo-Go, and the squares out in Pasadena are in waltz time at the Long...
...search for Communists extended to Harvard. The University, acting on a long tradition of academic freedom, held firm against the general craze to find subversive scapegoats and against the particular abuses of Senator McCarthy. Vital questions were thrust upon the University regarding the ambiguous figure of Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, at a time of uncertainty caused by the resignation of President Conant. Harvard's action in the Furry case, its support of the scholar's right to political independence at a time when the national desire for blood letting was at its height, was a turning point...
...attempt to re-create a period must be laved in memory and affection, but Flora looks down on rather than at the '30s. The show's parodies of parlor-pink dance epics, and the "knock knock" pun craze are too self-consciously silly to be funny. A tune-drab, dance-starved, lead-witted musical is scarcely the dream debut for a star, but Liza Minnelli puts vocal muscle and wistful appeal into her spindling role. She has the wide famished eyes of a waif, that vulnerable little-child look of hunger and wonder. Like her mother,Judy Garland...