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...Indira Gandhi's preference for thuggish, rude and forceful men?an obvious contrast to her father. Her husband Feroze, her father's secretary Mathai and her yoga teacher and personal holy man Bramachari all fit this description. She doted on her younger son Sanjay who was of the same mold. He was a selfish, untalented and unprincipled man who rode roughshod over his mother. His death in a 1980 plane crash broke her, personally and politically...
...defend one's dignity, even as one copies the ways of other civilizations, is to make a fetish of national uniqueness. It might seem from the outside that Japanese had remade themselves in the Western mold, wearing Western clothes, adopting Western ideas, imitating Western institutions, but somewhere deep down in the core of every true-born Japanese lay a purely Japanese soul, unsullied by anything alien. The phrase for this was wakon yosai, "Japanese spirit, Western knowledge." Western culture and learning, it was implied, was only for the head; the heart remained resolutely native...
...MacColl, if only to point out someone with great pop chops (Janet Jackson will do fine without me giving her any publicity, presumably. Sorry Miss Jackson). MacColl’s songs are catchy without being stupid—I would call them intelligent pop in the Sam Phillips/Aimee Mann mold, except she was a musician way before either of those artists (“They Don’t Know,” Tracey Ullman’s musical hit of the 80s, is a cover of a MacColl song, as is the Lemonheads’ B-side...
...perfected state of life without external intrusions and noise, his stress on form rather than function and his extraordinary command of perspective. Thoré was writing at the dawn of photography, which helped artists see in a new way. Vermeer, it then became clear, had broken the mold two centuries earlier...
Back in the days when NASDAQ-made millionaires were multiplying like mold spores, Desai materialized as a boy-wonder benefactor. He went on a pledging spree, contacting four colleges out of the blue and promising them a total of more than $5 million. That was before the Internet bubble--not to mention Desai's career--burst. To date he has coughed up only...