Word: mogul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...replaced him, Major General Iskandar Mirza, is a blunt soldier who believes his people ready only for a "controlled democracy." Descended from one of the great Mogul families of India, and the son of a wealthy Bengal landowner, Mirza is a Moslem aristocrat and autocrat. Says he bluntly: "Democracy requires breeding. Pakistan is not ripe for democracy. These illiterate peasants certainly know less about running a country than I do." Mirza joined India's raj, or ruling class, when the British sent him to Sandhurst military college in 1918. There he got to be a crack rifle shot...
...Chitor. "The swell of its sides," wrote Rudyard Kipling, "follows the form of a ship-from bow to stern more than three miles long and from three to five hundred feet high." Four centuries ago, in the land battleship of Chitor, the Rajputs held out against the invading Moguls. The Rajputs wore armor and fought with spears; the Moguls used cannon. In the last decisive engagement, a lucky Mogul shot killed the Rajput chieftain Jaimal, and the garrison, losing hope, performed the dreaded rite of jauhar...
...women and children were immolated on funeral pyres, and the warriors threw themselves on the Mogul swords. To complete his victory (which consolidated the Moslem conquest of Hindustan), the Mogul Emperor Akbar massacred 30,000 Rajput retainers, but failed to arrest the flight of the Rajput's famed armorers. With their families they followed their own Prince Pratap Singh into the forests, and took a solemn oath never to sleep under a roof or on a bed until Chitor was reconquered...
...Edward Gilbert's settings, his conception of a Pentagon mogul's office, seems rather more prosaic than it might have been, but on the whole the decors are elaborate and clever. There is, in fact, very little about The Solid Gold Cadillac that is not highly enjoyable, and a visit to the Colonial before next Saturday is highly recommended...
...mutual friend, "What she's got you can't spell, and what you have you used to have." But more often, the lines strain hard to evoke gasps of admiration; they produce only grunts of mystification. To prove that disaster has struck, a publicity agent says of a movie mogul, "I could tell something was wrong because he was eating as though the Labor Government had just been elected unanimously." It is not really surprising that the mogul's style of eating (he was putting jam on toast) lacked the particular characterization called for. What is worse, all of Mankiewicz...