Word: barbarianism
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Ancient, exotic Africa works changes on all the travelers except Mme. Momoro. She has been there before. Ogle feels himself shrinking into a bitter, puny ineffectual as he drives with her over multicolored mountains and desert in the wake of the barbarian Tinker, whose progress, strewn with coin and prodigious solecisms, looms more arid more like that of a conquering potentate, a latter-day Hamilcar, a boisterous Caesar of a new Rome. His is an army of dollars; his retinue at home is 6,000 slaves. He scoffs at the native backwardness, ladens his wife with curios, silks, jewelry brought...
...consider the Indians, as fine a set of people as I've ever found. The minds of primitive people are very much the same the world over. You must consider their viewpoint. Then, too, their etiquette is very complicated. They regard the white man as a blundering, bad-mannered barbarian...
...Hector My Dog, Bob Son of Battle, Stviss Family Robinson; even The Jungle Books, the Henty Books, Oliver Optic, Horatio Alger, and Little Lord Fauntieroy's lace collar and filial perfection* where are they? Gone, all gone, yet once the child that knew them not was plainly a barbarian...
...PHYSIOLOGY OF TASTE ?Brillat-Savarin ?unabridged translation?Boni & Liveright ($3.50). The man of today is stamped as a barbarian by nothing so indelibly as by his abandonment of the art of dining well. That art reached its apogee a century ago in France. The great Careme, chef successively to the courts of Russia, Austria and Britain, and to the Rothschilds, probably then achieved in his sauces the ultimate refinement of la haute cuisine ("high cookery"?superb food). "I would eat my own father with sauces such as these," ex- claimed the celebrated glutton Grimod de la Reyniere...
...Mosquito nation emerged a composite people to be reckoned with by European fury and a half of racial intermixture or gorgets of gold to relieve their paint-streaked. But after a con-consisted of two elderly wives, a son, and three daughters. Yet the astonishing fact remained that this barbarian wielded great power on the Caribbean...