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Word: east-a (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Significance. In the first place the exciting and vivid recital, told with candor and humor, of a pilgrim in search of true wisdom, West and East-a recital punctuated with adventures as odd as any of Sinbad the Sailor's. In the second, an illuminating and informative exposition, both of the India that tourists never see, and the America of which many of our self-elected " leaders of thought" still deny the existence. Most interesting of all perhaps, the reactions of an Eastern mind to both Oriental and Occidental civilizations and ideals-set down without hasty intolerance or propagandizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Caste and Outcast* | 7/23/1923 | See Source »

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