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THESE ARE THE DAMNED. Director Joseph Losey (The Servant) unleashes his razzle-dazzle camera techniques in a small science-fiction thriller about a tart (Shirley Anne Field) and a tourist (MacDonald Carey) who stumble onto some nightmarish experiments on the English coast...
...system. Low-caste village scavengers-who under Hindu tradition skinned dead livestock to sell the hides -now find less messy jobs. Hide merchants from the cities are forced to send out trucks with their own men to do the dirty work. Higher up the caste ladder, India faces a servant problem even more perplexing than that in the West (TIME, July 9). The punkah wallahs of the past are no longer willing to turn the fans in stifling offices; they have been replaced by air conditioning. Most lower-caste Indians prefer jobs as office boys or chauffeurs...
...laughing and building and filled with hope and life. And I think I know, too, how their mothers weep and how their families sorrow. And this is the most agonizing and the most painful duty of your President." But, he added, "I also know, as a realistic public servant, that as long as there are men who hate and destroy we must have the courage to resist or we'll see it all-all that we have built, all that we hope to build, all of our dreams for freedom-all will be swept away on the flood...
...embarrassing to end the Mass with Andate in pace (Go in peace)-locally the most common way to shoo away a beggar. Trying to come up with a common Mass text for Brazil and Portugal, translators discovered that they could not use the most common Brazilian word for servant (servidor): in Portugal it means bedpan...
...What Negroes want more than anything else is to be treated as men," Silberman asserted, explaining, "Negro-white relations have always been structured in a patron-servant, father-child relation...