Word: orientals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very often that a second book written in the same vein as a highly successful first one can equal its predecessor in the freshness of its approach. But Anne Lindbergh's "Listen, the Wind," though not so exciting as "North to the Orient," is even more of a work of art. In describing places and experiences that have never been described before, Mrs. Lindbergh, with unusual sensibility and insight, has succeeded in making her story both beautiful and real...
...military-minded, the demonstration proved that even a mobile enemy radio unit would have to be extremely laconic to avoid detection; to the airline safety-minded, it meant that a pilot off his course could orient himself almost as fast as he could tune in radio bearings...
...world's most popular writer on aviation is Anne Morrow Lindbergh, whose North to the Orient has sold 250,000 copies in three years, has been translated into eight languages, and is still selling at the rate of 800 a month. The disarming candor of Mrs. Lindbergh's writing is probably the biggest reason for its popularity, since she combines technical discussions of flight with humdrum, housewifely confessions of her fears while flying. Listen! The Wind has the same engaging tone as North to the Orient, includes some vivid recollections of tense hours over the Atlantic which give...
...Listen! The Wind proves to be less popular than North to the Orient, it may be because it describes a more tedious journey, gives the impression that Mrs. Lindbergh enjoyed flying over the frozen North far more than over the tropics...
Jerome D. Greene '96, Director of the Tercontenary and now secretary to the Corporation, discovered it in the Orient in 1931 and presented it to the University four years ago. Today it rests in the Treasure Room...