Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Feet are displayed right on the reading table, close to your nose, if you happen to be sitting opposite the comfort-seeker, and I can mention a few other habits and uses or rather abuses which students should have been taught long ago, if they haven't the inner breeding, to avoid...
Currently, readers have their choice of two. One is an exuberant feature story of the 1949 Tibetan holiday of Lowell Thomas and Lowell Jr.; the other is a sharp-eyed account of a junket through Inner Mongolia, taken in 1945 by Orientalist Schuyler Cammann of the University of Pennsylvania...
Author Cammann was sent to a U.S. meteorological outpost in Inner Mongolia toward the end of the war. During the weeks of his stay, he took short trips in all directions from his base near a town called Shanpa to the tents and temples of the Mongols. Since he thinks they are a vanishing people, Cammann looks close...
...heart, squeeze it until animal is dead), and admires the tricks which Mongol farmers play on their reluctant soil to make it yield. Yet in a land where there is barely enough to eat, an undernourished girl may have silver rings in her ears. Cammann condenses his impressions of Inner Mongolia into a phrase: "Wealth in squalor...
Lippold was moved to give an earnest explanation of his brainchild: "The center of this construction is actually designed around a sphere. The 'transparency' of the sphere gives opportunity to visualize such inner tensions as activate all aspects of earthly life: personal, social and international. Out of these inner relationships, the bursting of stem and branches from this 'World-Seed' resolved the whole conception into a treelike form, suggesting continuing growth. Thus, this piece is really a 'World-Tree,' its four branches reaching to the four main points of the compass, its trunk...