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...long time in this country for the need for qualitative change and had devoted a great deal of my life to working in ways that I thought would bring about such qualitative change. I went through many of the things that a lot of middle-class or upper-class people do or particularly women. We have kind of more time and more freedom and in a male chauvinist world, I don't think people pay a great deal of attention, or didn't, as to what we did and nobody took it terribly seriously. I had worked very...
...quarreling over the separation of the two sections of Pakistan from India, are butchering one another. A train from an old British hill station in the north is stopped by angry Hindus as it crosses the plains. Shouting Indian attackers kill shrieking Indian passengers by the hundreds. A young upper-class Moslem man, traveling in a first-class compartment with several Britons and an Indian nursemaid, gallantly and rather apologetically saves their lives by giving himself to the mob. He is chopped to bits...
...endless, repetitive probing is the struggle of the British community to avoid acknowledging the truth and the dubious morality of its presence as ruler of India. Kumar's own cultural alienation tends to make his case hopeless. He was raised from infancy in England, and he acquired upper-class speech and habits at a prestigious public school. The bankruptcy and suicide of his financier father forced him to return, destitute, to India. There his English classmates ignored him, and the Indians with whom he lived regarded him as an unattractive curiosity. At the end of the final volume...
Scenes From American Life, a comedy about upper-class life in Buffalo, has been getting rave reviews. It's continuing in repertory with Ah, Wilderness at the BU Summer Repertory Theatre. Ticket prices are steep--$4 to $7.50--but there is such a thing as a "student pass." Call 353-3392. --Natalle Wexler
...believes that "chance has no part in police work"-but his hunches tend to be inspired. These two are supported by a sturdy cast: Fredrik Melander, who has a prodigious memory and spends much of his day in the bathroom; Gunvald Larsson, an impetuous dropout from what he calls "upper-class riffraff;" Einar Rönn, who writes execrable official reports; Per Mänsonn, who is chief in Malmö, where trouble often occurs (and where the Wahlöös lived). Finally, there are the Keystone Klutzes, Kvant and Kristiansson-patrolmen stuck with each other because neither...