Word: narcissuses
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...Origin of the State discovers, with more art than anthropology, the origins of the state in the rapistic longings of proto-Neanderthal youth. The timely essay on The Argentine State and the Argentinean sheds less light on the Argentine than on Ortega, who discovers that the Argentinean "is a Narcissus to the highest degree, being both Narcissus and the spring of Narcissus, and his image into the bargain." Now a refugee in Buenos Aires, Author Ortega regrets that "I know too little of the secret sphere of erotic relations in Argentina. ... Is the Argentinean a good lover?" He believes that...
...rose" of the Bible is perhaps an oleander, perhaps a narcissus, certainly not a rose...
Rumer Godden is an Englishwoman who lives in India. Last year her Black Narcissus (TIME, July 17, 1939) spun out the struggling efforts of a group of Anglican nuns to do good against the handicaps of their new convent (a quondam seraglio) and the tremendous face of Kinchinjunga which confronted their small and gentle souls. Reviewers' adjective for Black Narcissus was "enchanting." It will do for Gypsy, Gypsy...
...spectacular an outlook, and no alterations could remove the memories of the women for whom it had been built. Nevertheless, the squat little general's offer was gratefully accepted by an Anglican sisterhood. Why the nuns left before the rains came, Rumer Godden tells in Black Narcissus...
Novelist Godden is 31, has spent most of her life in India, knows her hill country. Little happens in Black Narcissus, but the charm of the characters, and their talk, keep the story moving. U. S. readers will find few better novels for hammock reading this summer...