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...David Gilmour had been brought in to fill the hole made by Syd's psychic withdrawal. In 1968 Syd left for real. He then worked with David and Rick Wright on two solo albums, which are chaotic but include great writing. He had this unique whimsical style?and at a time when songwriting demanded American pronunciation, he sang in the Queen's English...
...sinful lifestyle." In Jesus' day, no one knew of the existence of bacteria and carcinogens, so many put the cause down to sinful behavior, but now we know better. To say illnesses are due to sin is ridiculous and degrading to those who suffer from them. Sarah Jane Gilmour East Lansing, Michigan, U.S. How dare that self-righteous evangelist even hint that Jesus would heal people with AIDS and tell them, "Go and sin no more." I ask Graham, What sin did a newborn commit to come into this world with HIV? What sin did an unsuspecting person given...
...taxman, responsible for collecting the tolls and revenues due to the Raj from his district, and one part magistrate, settling his district's legal disputes, which might range from petty theft to murder. In addition, he was in charge of "forests, roads, schools, hospitals, fences, canals and agriculture," writes Gilmour. "And on top of all this, he also had to keep himself accessible, to allow people to come and sit on his verandah and 'pay their respects' and hand in their petitions." It was a tremendously diverse workload, and the ICS men had little formal training to prepare...
...lonely existence in remote towns with few other Englishmen around, and yearned incessantly for the motherland. Their wives were even more miserable, and some naturally took to having affairs, especially in the hill station of Simla, where the thin mountain air was reputed to encourage promiscuity. As Gilmour notes, almost all the ICS men couldn't wait to retire, collect their pension and get back to Britain. Yet once home, a strange fondness for India would often afflict them, and they would spend their evenings sunk in a club chair with a gin and tonic, boring everyone with endless tales...
...Gilmour is out to redeem the ICS, and the portrait that emerges in his book is of a bureaucracy that was as efficient, fair-minded and honest as its reputation suggests. This is probably an exaggeration. Gilmour does not gloss over the famines that ravaged India repeatedly during the British Raj, killing millions; yet he calls them failures of policymakers at the top, and seems too eager to exculpate the ICS men who were in charge of arranging relief for the stricken districts. Some of them clearly failed to do their jobs properly. But while the ICS may not have...