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...picking a method of treatment out of anthropology and using it to handle a political exposition. He can mingle ideas from psychoanalysis and economics and enrich the result with literary references from Tolstoy, Samuel Butler, Virginia Woolf, Castiglione, Jules Verne, Franz Kafka, St. Augustine, Nietzsche, Kathleen Winsor, E. M. Forster, Lionel Trilling, Cervantes, Jack London and James Joyce. His books are relatively free of academic jargon, because there is no special lingo that the economists, sociologists and anthropologists have in common; anybody who wants to talk to all of them has to use English...
...Varsity B Reds topped the Harvard Club of Boston, 3-2. Scoring wins for the Reds were Al Stone, Hans Forster, and Mike Levinson. Both Ed Rose and Lan Thomas were shut...
Sweeping all five contests, the Varsity B Reds crushed Lincolns Inn. Ted Rose, At Stone, Landon Thomas, Ham Forster, and Eliot Hawkins comprised the victorious squad...
...Into the presidency of Hercules Powder Co. went Albert E. Forster, 52, succeeding Charles A. Higgins, 65, who remains board chairman. A Stanford University engineering graduate, Forster joined Hercules in 1925, left it for four Depression years to try his hand at a Brazilian engineering job. Back at Hercules again, he helped run an explosives plant, switched to sales and service, became a director in 1940, a vice president two years...
India has fascinated many Western writers, but whether they celebrated the white man's burden, like Kipling, or deplored the excesses of imperialism, like E. M. Forster, they were usually outsiders observing from a distance. In recent years, the Indians have been raising novelists of their own, such as G. V. (for Govindas Vishnoodas) Desani, author of the high-comic All About H. Hatterr (TIME, June 18, 1951). Now comes R. K. (for Rasi-puram Krishnaswami) Narayan, a gently satirical fellow and a writer of substance. At 45, Narayan has published half a dozen novels and scores of stories...