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...Long Vow. Abandoned, Chitor became a haunt of tigers, one of a thousand Hindu shrines, and today the only recurring evocation of its stirring last days is the curse which may sometimes be heard on Indian lips: "By the sin of the sack of Chitor." The Rajput armorers became a tribe of wandering blacksmiths called the Gadia Lohars, big, fork-bearded men in pink turbans, women wearing silver bangles and big silver nose rings, and untouchables worshiping the smallpox goddess, Sheetala. Without quite knowing why, they still observe their ancient vow: never do they sleep under a roof, but live...
...would pan the sandy river bottoms; finding a few diamonds, he would load his canoe with rum and float downriver, happily strumming the cuatro, his four-stringed guitar. Then some missionaries showed Agustín the error of his ways. "I put the cuatro and the rum in a sack and threw them into the Caroni River," he reported...
Fully agreeing with Schweppe, the Post-Intelligencer considered the boycott over academic freedom a "phony issue." The paper editorialized: "Presumably we should don sack-cloth and strew ashes over our uncultured heads for the "egregiousinsult' tendered Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer when that eminent scientist was rejected as a visiting lecturer. But we ain't agonna." The paper continued that "the notion that 'academic freedom' is involved ... is emotional and juvenile balderdash...
...Sack's fumbling attempt to hush up his identity has little success. He stands exposed as a Soviet spy, smuggled to our shores to sow the seeds of sabotage...
...light of this, it is clear why Mr. Sacks parrots the Communist line on page after page. One sickening example will be more than enough: it is the first sentence of chapter 13. "My relations with the Chinese People's Volunteers, I'm sorry to say, have always been rather strained." That Mr. Sack had strained relations with the Chinese is, of course, good news to all loyal Americans; but why is he sorry about it? The major goal of our foreign policy should be strained the relations, with the Chinese Reds; the more strained the relations, the better...