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While Western influences infect the young, it may take a long time before the ghost of Colonel Blimp is driven entirely from the country. Last week, for instance, a headline in one New Delhi newspaper read: STERN TASK AHEAD FOR INDIA. A New Year's appeal by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi for the country to buckle down to the job of developing its resources? Not at all. The story referred to a cricket test match being played in Calcutta between India and England...
...told your mother a 'hant' story which you'd better have her read to you. This old place cracks and pops all night long and you can imagine that old Jackson or Andy Johnson or some other ghost is walking. Why they'd want to come back I could never understand. It's a nice prison but a prison nevertheless. No man in his right mind would want to come here of his own accord...
...GHOST STORY. NBC. Friday...
...Angeles, San Francisco and, of course, New York. In between, he "rests up" in his modest, nine-room house in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, and sometimes lets his mind wander back over times gone by. Like the night when he was eight and thought there was a ghost in the backyard. Actually, it was a white shirt hanging on the clothesline. His father took him outside, made him touch the shirt, then whipped him. "He only whipped me three times in his life and each time it was for being afraid," says Blake...
Another esteemed ruin, as far as Vidal is concerned, is the 18th century radicalism of the Declaration of Independence. In writing of contemporary American piety, hypocrisy or corruption, he evokes the ghost of Daniel Shays, a veteran of the American Revolution who led a futile rebellion against the propertied founding fathers when they sought to replace the confederation of states with a central government empowered to collect taxes. Shays, says Vidal with obvious approval, sounding a little like a Dixiecrat, "did not want London to be replaced by New York." Still the Property Party, as Vidal calls those who rule...