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...time." The time was the 1920s and '30s, and the man was Wyndham Lewis. Since then, Lewis has died, and the many battles he fought and which seemed so important at the time have passed into memory. Now Lewis' collected letters recall those battles-the clang and clatter of cubism, futurism, imagism, vorticism; the boisterous challenge to the literary establishment of "the Men of 1914": Eliot, James Joyce, Ezra Pound and, not least by a long shot, Wyndham Lewis...
...Jungle of Cities luxuriates with bizarre effects that probably symbolize very little. Actors clang bells when they go on and off the set; scene changes are announced on a sign bordered with flashing yellow lights, and furniture is made out of boxes lettered with the words "love," "hate," "cat," and "die." Florid, epigrammatic dialogue matches the props, with lines like "Security is a pipe dream until the next ice age comes...
...young girl Donamayee teases a pet bird and is teased in turn by her husband. Then, suddenly revealed as a incarnation of the Mother Goddess, she finds herself worshipped by her family, adored by crowds of pilgrims. She sits enthroned in an incense-clouded temple; priests chant and bells clang...
...miles down the coast, where half a dozen American settlers have already set up housekeeping. "When we first came," recalls a retired American woman in Puerto Vallarta, "you could hear parrots from the mountains at night. You can't hear them any more." But to the Mexicans, the clang of cash registers makes up for a lot of squawks...
Even the daddy of the "theme" parks, Disneyland, has recognized that it's wise to play surprise-surprise to be sure that those cash registers clang. Though 5,000,000 contented customers trouped through Walt's Sleeping Beauty Castle and Indian Village last year, he has added The Swiss Family Treehouse, which will lead kiddies through 150,000 handmade leaves and blossoms to the Robinsons' abode 80 feet above the jungle-delightfully furnished with flotsam, jetsam (down to the last doily), plus a fabulous view. And the Oakland, (Calif.) Children's Fairyland has built a Chinese...