Word: cooch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This engaging period piece was begun by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (pronounced cooch, as in cooch dancer), who once took time off from his voluminous novels, poems and anthologies to complete St. Ives, the novel left unfinished at his death by Robert Louis Stevenson. Author Daphne (Rebecca) du Maurier has performed a similar service for Sir Arthur, who died in 1944 at the age of 80. In her Gothic conclusion, Author du Maurier is inventive enough, but her sentences-round and ripe though they be-lack the sonorous roll of Quiller-Couch's originals. Who but an authentic Victorian...
...cities and into questionable hotels. They also get to see a big piece of the world. Holland-American Line's Rotterdam, for example, is now steaming around the world on an 80-day trip that will include a tiger shikar at the jungle estates of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar in the foothills of the Himalayas, a tour of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, side trips to Galle in Ceylon and Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. The fare...
Sorry for the Animals. Daughter of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar, she was educated at India's Santiniketan University, in Switzerland and England. As the Maharajah of Jaipur's third wife (the first two are dead), she is a celebrated figure at international spas, loves polo, shot 27 tigers before she retired from the sport because "I feel sorry for the animals." Now, as candidate, she neglects her custom of riding out in a monogrammed white Jaguar at 7 a.m. to exercise her husband's 18 polo ponies, spends the time instead writing campaign speeches and running...
BELLY dancing is often considered one of the lower art forms, but many practitioners of Shifte Telli and Karshilama, now enjoying a major revival in the U.S., got their first training in church. See SHOW BUSINESS, The Cooch Terpers...
Continuum of Mankind. If a dancer is good, she suggests purely and superbly the fundamental mechanics of ancestry and progeny-the continuum of mankind. But a great many of what Variety calls the "cooch terpers" are considerably less cosmic than that. Each dancer follows the ancient Oriental pattern-she glides sideways with shoulders motionless while her stomach migrates, and, through breathing and muscle control, she sends ripples across her body to the fingertips and away to the far end of the room. This is done at varying speeds, ranging from the slow and fast Shifte Telli (a musical term meaning...