Word: exoticisms
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HAMLET certainly did have an uncle. And it is not Claudius (as he is called in that "perverted" form of Hamlet's story which is most familiar to us to whom Mr. Cabell refers. It is a certain Wiglerus who, in spite of his strange and somewhat comic name, turns...
Mention of the word party brings to Ouida Bergère's baby brown eyes a weird, predaceous glitter. Ouida Bergère (nee Ida Berger) is chubby, red-headed Mrs. Basil Rathbone. Once something of a scriptress, for seven years she was head of Paramount's scenario...
Like its author, Through China's Wall defies classification. It is part exquisite travel book, part exciting history, part exotic philosophy. But above all it is a portrait portfolio of a race. In deft, humorous, economical sketches, it explains (better than a whole stack of dry-as-dust commentaries...
When a distinctly nationalistic school began to develop in Spin, the stimulus came at first from outside. In their search for folk-songs and new and exotic types of musical material the musicians of the late nineteenth century, especially the colorists of Russia and France, exploited the brilliant melodies and...
Romains' countryman, Andre Malraux, achieved in Man's Fate (1934), a story of the 1927 Chinese civil war, a more vivid and at times more exalted work of dramatic craftsmanship than Verdun. But Malraux was working within far narrower limits, in what physicists by analogy might call a...