Word: omy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though Wynd obviously should know Japan at firsthand, Black Fountains reads as though it might have been written in a U.S. public library. The characters are stock and wooden, fitted out with set speeches: Heroine Omi with her U.S. education, her once-liberal parents who have swallowed the new Japanese nationalist ideology, the old housekeeper turned spy. Wynd also spells out a message: there are lots of good Japanese but they cannot effectively buck the bad ones. Says Heroine Omi: "God grant that the Americans see this! . . . This country has to be cleaned. We haven't the strength...
...Malaya, Weller found equally omi nous differences. British mistrust of native qualities was paralleled by Malayan hatred for the 2,000,000 Chinese in their midst...
...crowned sphinxes, two serpents, two swans and one horned owl, he had genuine Oriental writing between his fingers which branded him as "the greatest rascal and thief in the world." But he was not much more elaborately illustrated than England's onetime army officer, Zebra Man Omi (see cut), who sports a 150-hour job by London's tattooist George Burchett...