Word: occidentales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What strikes modern readers of Genji most surprisingly is its up-to-date-ness. The psychological novel is apparently no modern invention after all. Formal, slow-moving, ceremoniously polite, Lady Murasaki's court romance is peopled by very human beings (some 800 in all). Hero is Prince Genji, illegitimate...
Japanese bugles in China are not so loud as Japan's bugle diplomat, Yosuke Matsuoka. After he stalked out of the League of Nations' conference on Manchuria last February, he sounded off for Japan through France, Britain and the U. S. Back home, the Japanese glowed proudly at...
In Philadelphia, at the 3Qth Penn Relay Carnival: Manhattan (McGeogh, Burns. Ryan, Crowley) won the 2½ mile medley relay in world's record time (10 min. 14 sec.) with N. Y. U. second, Cornell third. Joe McCluskey of Fordham won the 3,000-metre steeplechase for the third...
In the Middle and Far East there is, the Commission found, a notable absence of that "vulgarity" common in brothels of the West.* Most Asiatics prefer to hire women of their own race. Solemnly the Commission postulates and advises that: 1) The principal factor in promotion of the international traffic...
Doubtless The Bitter Tea of General Yen will distress cinemaddicts who cherish the illusion that under Tsar Hays the cinema is committed to upholding Occidental theories of right and wrong. Aside from being morally subversive and eloquently antiChristian, it is not an unusual, although it is an intelligent, production. It...