Word: navajos
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There Lou left him. with the little Welsh groom whose lunar spiritual isolation had mastered not only the horse but, momentarily, the stony Mrs. Witt. Lou went on, into New Mexico, with her mother and their other groom, a half-breed Navajo from Arizona. The latter, detached, impassive, had seemed more than human back in England; but here, with dusky squaws about, he could be seen as himself, stupid, ratlike, sexually predatory...
...painting, a collection of bicycle parts, window panes, scraps of roofing material, were all part of an exhibition of modern Art in Berlin, free from all limitations of jury. The kult room was the heart of the exhibition. A sign, "Keep off the Tapestry," warned spectators off the Navajo rug on the graveled floor. A square white column, carefully off-center, held up the roof. The rear wall consisted of a sheet of plate glass end-on to the room, an "S"-shaped strip of celluloid, all against a background of awning stripes. A little red balloon hung in front...
...very effective when employed with moderation by such skillful hands as those of Kipling, who is probably the chief sponsor of the device; but since all followers are likely to exaggerate the tricks of their masters, it is a dangerous instrument for indiscriminate use. In the "Translation from the Navajo", the vicissitudes through which the author has to pass in his search for the realization of his dream are narrated with a painful vagueness. It is all very well to claim that such a method enhances the desired mysticism or the exotic Indian atmosphere; but technical devices should not become...
...Arrow-Head", the descriptions of the apartment in New York and of the farm in the Middle West are typical examples of the straining after a vivid and detailed presentation of the milieu, quite in the manner of "Main Street". The story in the "Translation from the Navajo", despite the author's agreeable lightness of touch, and gift for fanciful invention, is well-high lost in the atmosphere. The sentiment of the verses headed "Amnesia" is poetic and apparently sincere, the technical frame-work is successful; but here the impression is impaired by a too highly colored wordiness. The setting...
...Williams and Mr. Jacob Morgan, both of whom are graduates of Hampton. Mr. Williams is one of the agents of the Southern Education Board, and will speak of the work which is being done in the South by graduates of the Institute. Mr. Morgan is a Navajo Indian and will give a description of life among the Indians...