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Brigadier Theodore Augden recalls his years of military service: "The few of us who were called Eurasians first and officers afterwards were looked on by _ the Brits as upstarts. The Indians called us snobs." Strangers in their own skins, exiles in their own country, the half-castes yearn for some homeland that does not exist. Enter " Lionel, 20, banished from Lucknow because of an affair with a Hindu girl. The young bachelor withdraws into lofty isolation. "He was laughing at us for our old ways, our old clothes, our games, our silly picnics, and our drunkenness," thinks Natalie, Augden...
...internal Islamic opposition?is Qum, a city of 300,000 that ranks with Najaf in Iraq as one of the world's greatest centers of Shi'ite learning. Located 75 miles south of Tehran, Qum is both a symbol and a model of the Iran that the mullahs yearn to preserve. No television aerials mar the pristine skyline; no public cinemas threaten to seduce the inquisitive; no bars or liquor stores offend the strict life of the observant. All women wear the chador and devote much of their lives to weaving fine Persian carpets. Thronging the streets are thousands...
Those daily briefings and meetings and handshakings and constant questions from the press. Presidents generally enjoy the rituals of office?otherwise they wouldn't be Presidents?but there also come times when they yearn to escape. Calvin Coolidge used to flee to his father's farm in Vermont to enjoy the tranquillity of the haying season. Herbert Hoover cast flies into Virginia's Rapidan River. Harry Truman swam off the beach at Key West, and Dwight Eisenhower drove golf balls through pine-edged fairways in Colorado...
...past five to seven years has been directionless and unmotivated. The fact that power is coming back into rock [June 26] delights me. People don't write songs, at least good songs, about oil embargoes, world economic problems, détente or other assorted unromantic difficulties. I yearn, crave, ache for the days of rock as a religion, with its electricity and excitement. A new religion might grant those of us with '60s mores and ideals living in the disenchanting '70s at least a brief reprieve from the raisin-less oatmeal that spews forth from supposedly...
...writing .44, a novelized account of Berkowitz's 14-month killing spree. But they haven't done much of a service, either: the book reads more like a dime-store cheapie than a presumably classy $10 hardback, and what goes between those hard covers is enough to make you yearn for the good old days, when the Papal Index kept the trash in the barrels and out of the bookstores. Breslin and Schaap offer little more than a Dragnet-style, names-have-been-changed-to-protect-the-innocent-and-save-us-from-a-lawsuit rundown of the murders, with...