Word: indias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starvation could be "controlled" (spread out into disease-breeding malnutrition) by rationing. The experts said that a human needed at least 2,200 calories a day. The average U.S. citizen (still eating more than he had before the war) consumed more than 3,200 calories a day. In India there were at least 55 million city-dwellers living on a ration of 960 calories, and this might soon...
...norm, the world would get through to the 1947 harvest, although at a lower level of subsistence than before the war. (Strange as it seemed, after all the killing, there were 100 million more people in the world in 1946 than in 1939; 35 million of them were in India alone.) But if 1946 crops were subnormal or if the organization of food supply broke down at any critical point, the famine of 1947 might be worse than that which threatened...
...plump Madame Naidu is still a member of the Congress Party's Working Committee, is considered India's topmost orator. She paints her toenails bright...
...utilities system) than with understanding national cultures. Says McGovern: "So much of our university life is departmentalized. The really worthwhile things are the cut-across subjects-races, languages, religions, what people eat and drink-and how they treat their mothers-in-law. If you know the culture patterns of India, how the Bengalese feel about the Burmese, and the Burmese about the Kachins, and which hate the British, you can guess pretty accurately how India will react to a Jap attack. That is applied political science...
Another Stieglitz protégé was Max Weber, whose first, fine-chopped abstractions, like Chinese Restaurant, were harder to take than the India-rubber rabbis he paints now. The New York Times art critics are more sympathetic to him today than was the Timesman who sputtered in 1911: "It is difficult to write of these atrocities with moderation...