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Arthur, the son, arrives home to find his relatives worshipping unconventionality and chaos. His grandmother sleeps on a catafalque; uncle Eugene sports tails and short pants; Stomil, his father, loudly promulgates a "revolution in aesthetics and morality;" and Stomil's wife Eleanor brags aloud of sleeping with the servant. And all the while young Arthur wears a conservative suit, scorns art and passionately urges his family to return to tradition and order...
...attended only by them and their families-about 20 people in all-Hughes was laid in a grave beside his mother and father in Houston's Glenwood Cemetery. "We brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out," said the priest. "Remember thy servant Howard...
...headstrong woman explores higher and higher-above the last town, above the encampments of the nomadic Gujar tribe, above the tree line -the air becomes cleaner and thinner and her life more elemental. The solitude and longed-for "power of seeing, really seeing" pull her onward. Leah's servant, Ahmed, shares her drive, but he is eager only to leave behind a life of error. Despite their backgrounds the un likely pair draw closer until the purity of the landscape erodes their differences...
...portion last week, a well-dressed Salisbury matron observed that "the brouhaha over black rule was a bit of a bother, but the talks are ended and that's all over now." Did she see anything ominous in the breakdown of black-white dialogue? "Oh heavens, no. My servant tells me all of his people want us to stay and run the country. He's terribly trustworthy, you know...
Haldipur is a calm and intense long-back-haired son of an academic civil servant, Columbia educated. He is the most politically committed foreign student I spoke to. His father was a "self-made man," Haldipur says, a member of a country family which settled, as poor people, in the city, a man who went to school so long that it created rifts with Haldipur's grandfather. Haldipur himself went to England on a two-year scholarship after a private school education in India--to Atlantic College in South Wales where there were students from "30 or 35 countries." Having...