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Nose Count. Meanwhile India's waspish diplomatic swami, V.K. Krishna Menon, casting himself in the role of the great mediator, told everyone that neither the troika nor the temporary Secretary-General would work. He had no plan of his own, simply kept urging compromise. "You value this organization, don't you?" he would ask unaligned delegates. "Then you'd better get the U.S. and its allies to compromise, to meet the Russians halfway...
...adult reader with a strong stomach, the scandalous and scurvy parts are worth reading more than the ornithological thimbleriggery. When Miller assumes the role of atheist-theologian, no such apocalyptic poppycock could be found outside the atelier of a Sunset Strip swami. On encountering words like "Life," "Love," "God," "Art," etc., a first rule for the reader is to reach 'for the safety catch of his syllogism. If not armed with this weapon he could try a simpler trick, what might be called the "No Game" of slipping in a negative each time Miller makes a cosmic positive statement...
Mystic Krishna Menon (no kin to India's Foreign Minister) distressed Koestler with his custom of inviting his followers to reap the spiritual benefits of listening to "the bathroom noises of the Swami's morning toilet." Anandamayee Ma was nearly 63, but she looked like "a gypsy beauty in her forties." She played constantly with her beautiful toes, and disconcerted Koestler by giggling and writhing while she delivered her spiritual wisdom to a rapt audience...
Points of View is no potboiler. There are five essays on subjects not precisely calculated to appeal to the old master's usual fans. He writes about the short story, the novels of Goethe, a Hindu swami he once met, three French writers who kept personal and controversial journals, and about the life and writings of Dr. Tillotson, a 17th century Archbishop of Canterbury. A doubtful lot, on the face of it, but Maugham has the easy knack of wringing interest out of all of them. Virtually all of his information is from other books (which he freely admits...
This is a tale about a reluctant swami. The setting is Malgudi, a sleepy little Indian town dedicated to daydreaming nonviolence. One of Malgudi's daydreamers is Raju, an ex-jailbird (minor forgery) who camps on a stone slab near a temple and counts the stars. When a troubled villager says, "I have a problem, sir" and Raju hears him out, the stargazer's career as a swami has begun. Soon he gets credit for every good thing that happens in Malgudi. He repays his followers in doubtful oracular wisdom ("What can a crocodile...