Word: orientalizes
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...Rock Garden, by Nikos Kazantzakis. In this transparently autobiographical novel, the great Greek poet-novelist describes a 1936 trip to the Orient, where he saw with depression but grudging admiration "a new human type" emerging against the ancient beauties, as the Japanese girded...
With newspaper headlines growing ever more critical, public animosity became so great that four flics were beaten up recently. Concerned, Interior Minister Roger Frey last week called top police officials together and spoke some harsh words. He told them "to orient their essential activities toward their traditional job." "Your action will contribute most to the public peace," Frey upbraided them, "when it is carried out with humanity, sangfroid, tact and courtesy, with unrelenting care for the respect of human beings. This requires not a little urbanity in relations with the public." Will the oldest constabulary in the Western world mend...
There have been thousands and thousands of Buddha statues since, but their work has not been to serve religion alone. For much of the Orient, the Buddha has been the dominating theme for artists, and to a large extent, the evolution of the Buddha image reveals the development of Eastern art itself...
...Japan and China were on the verge of war and hardly in the mood for poetry. But the great Greek Poet-Novelist Nikos Kazantzakis chose that year to make a trip to the Orient. There his poetic values came under heavy bombardment. In this transparently autobiographical novel, as slender in plot as it is rich in philosophy, Kazantzakis records the intellectual combat...
Kazantzakis takes a poet's delight in the beauties of the ancient Orient. In Peking, he lovingly explores every crevice of crumbling palaces. "Praised be luxury," he cries, "superfluous luxury, the peacock's plume! That is what civilization is: to feel that luxury is as indispensable as bread." But the Chinese are embarrassed by their past and consider it fit only for tourists. They scoff at Kazantzakis' bourgeois concern for beauty. "I hate beauty because it dries up hearts," a Chinese tells him. "Your heart, so tender in appearance, is dry and cruel, like the hearts...