Word: java
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leopold Godowsky, now on a concert tour in Java, has high phrases to speak in praise of Javanese music and the national Javanese instrument, the gamelang. This is a clear-toned string instrument with that beauty of sound that you find in oriental string instruments. People who have heard it speak of its haunting, lingering tunefulness under the fingers of Javanese players...
...make into a fantastic novel. She studied in Paris, and, as scarcely more than a student, created one of the roles in Pelleas under the coaching of Debussy. Then, with a brilliant career in her hands, she married a Hollander, an official in the East Indies. To Java she went to preside over a satrap's strange eastern household. She lived there for several years. As a powerful white functionary's wife, she moved as a great person among the potentates of the oriental island. She tells of living as an honored guest in the harem...
...Patagonia was found a human skull, half a million years older than the famous Java head, aged...
Perhaps some critic of the next century investigating the dusty worn volumes of today will discover a master piece which has escaped unsuspected. "Tales of the Jazz Age" may turn out to be a second "Decameron" or "Conles Droliques"; "Java Head" another "Moby Dick...
...such a gradual nature that even Dr. Getsinger's twelve thousand years from submersion to emergence is pretty fast work. Nature never hurries. But if we add yet another 30,000 years (a second cycle of the pole star) we should find that Pithecanthropus Erectus was posing in Java as the "father of us all" at about the time that "obviously and indubitably the ancients must have been infinitely more spiritual than ourselves and their power lay in their greater understanding of the universe and its laws"--to quote Dr. Getsinger. Oh well! When Anthropology conflicts with Geology and Archaeology...