Word: mussulman
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...people Gobineau came to know in his wide travels as a diplomat. The Dancing Girl of Shamahka involves the racial pride of Tartars suckled in a dizzy nest among Caucasian crags. The Illustrious Magician: wifely devotion, the burning quest of gaunt dervish and the dilemma of a thorougbred Mussulman. The Love of Kandahar: Romeo and Juliet among the haughty, feudmaking Afghans. They are keen-edged tales, scabbarded in language of bygone elegance, glinting fine irony...
...undergraduate life, there must surely be other contributing reasons, however occult. Perhaps it is a new expression of the old antipathy between Town and Gown. There is also the hypothesis that the vicious driver, instead of being a psychopathic case, is a convert to Fundamentalism trying like a Mussulman to roar up to Heaven with the life of a Modernist for registration, license, and gate pass. Whatever the explanation, the humor of the situation is rapidly passing beyond that stage characterized by Dean Swift as "A college joke to help the dumps...