Word: caf
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...alone among recent Japanese literary imports, No Longer Human is strikingly free of cherry-blossom reveries and puzzling Oriental character motivations. If the author's identity were unknown, this novel might easily be taken for the work of a U.S. Southern decadent who had lingered long at the café tables of the French existentialists...
...Dufresne came to Indo-China as schoolteachers. When Pa died, Ma was left with two small children to support, and she took a job playing piano in a café. For ten long years she pounded the keys and squeezed the centimes until she had enough money to get a farm-and then bought a plot of lowland that the sea invaded every summer, carrying off the harvest before it could be gathered. Indomitable, Ma built a wall of mangrove logs to keep the sea away, but a storm came and broke the wall in a single night, and broke...
...Vienna before World War I, the maddest celebrity in town was Oskar Kokoschka. His morbid plays dramatizing strife between the sexes set off bitter café debates; his portraits turning the light on the psychological "inner life" of his subjects outraged complacent burghers. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne (whose assassination at Sarajevo in 1914 triggered World War I), gave it as his opinion that "this fellow's bones ought to be broken in his body." After the war, which dealt Kokoschka a head wound and a bayoneting, the artist moved to the front rank of avant...
...rooms and tractor garages are concentrated. Each village has 50 to 60 families-all Hungarians, all Iranians or all Poles. But the children all go to the same school in the rural center. All villagers are treated at the same clinic, attend the same movie, sit in the same caf...
Born Apostle. Zarur was a successful radio scripter when, in 1949, he sat in his usual café and suddenly saw "the figure of a Catholic priest appear, then disappear." Thus Zarur was inspired by the "truth of spiritualism"-which, as a blend of Catholic symbols and African superstitions, is one of the most serious obstacles to the growth of Christianity in Brazil. He dreamed up a new agony radio program called Hour of Good Will. Letters poured in dripping with misfortunes and appeals for help, and as Zarur read them over the air, he was fascinated by the number...