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...some helpful hints for the Scrabble set (aaa is a hookworm disease of ancient Egypt, and the zzxjoanw is a musical instrument). Unfortunately, he omits acrostics, telestichs, lipogrammata, univocalic verses, Richelieu's equivoque or Swift's "Lacerated Latin" verses, in which Latin words make English statements ("Omi de armis tres,/ Imi na dis tres./ Cantu disco ver/ Meas alo ver?"). But he does include a section on the word square, the prototype of the crossword puzzle, and tops it off with an impressive sentence square composed entirely of five-letter words...
With avalanche of musical activities in past week and a half, many overlapping like a fugal stretto, reviewer put in somewhat same position as the Japanese poet given task of composing a seventeen-syllable poem dealing with all of the Eight Views of Omi...
...when he rose to speak before members of the U.N. General Assembly, a trick of lighting lent him a certain omi-nousness-his shadow stretched straight out at Russia's Andrei Vishinsky on his left. The delegates watched it with frank fascination. When he made his familiar, chopping gestures, the shadow appeared to be boxing Vishinsky's ears unmercifully, an illusion which was intensified by the President's words. His plea for a "foolproof" disarmament was obviously meant to offset Russia's phony peace talk...
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...