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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peter Koinange's worst fright came during his first cold spell, in Ohio. Numb, he thought he was growing paralyzed. Of U. S. phenomena he has been most im-pressed by the Statue of Liberty, skywriting, Negro spirituals, politicians. He took readily to collegiate sweaters, rejected knickers as undignified. Having specialized in sociology, he hopes to make his people yearn for knowledge. Now the Kikuyu's prime ambition-which he achieves only by years of prying and pulling with coils of wire, disks of wood, cane pegs, gourds-is to make his ear lobes touch his shoulders...
Indeed, "One Light Burning" casts a spell of unreality over its willing reader. Paradoxically enough the spell is made more potent by realistic descriptions of the people and the surroundings. The account of Andrew's expedition wandering in the frozen wastes of Russia in search of a brilliant philosopher, who at times seems to become an illusion, a product of fevered imaginations, and the story of Sandy's slow degeneracy are perhaps unsurpassed by any realistic novelist. But it is the motivation of the characters which makes this novel outstanding...
...more like a parody than a parable-as if General Hugh Johnson had written his code version of one of the rayon-gossamer fables of Oscar Wilde. But readers who were stunned into shocked attention by The Postman Always Rings Twice (TIME, Feb. 19, 1934) may fall under the spell of Author Fessier's glittering...
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...charm, the nose has lost many of its powers. Yet in the Congo, it still plays an important part in attracting mates. The theory among the savages is that the eyes are fickle, but that once a man is nosed, all the anthropologists in Africa can't beak the spell. Where the nose has lost much is in its powers of prophecy. Time was, when our nose itched, we knew we were to hear good news be kissed by a fool, or take a long journey. Now we just call it an itch and scratch. That's civilization...