Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strong evidence that the world has another fine writer. Sylvia Ashton-Warner's first novel. Spinster, astonished critics last year with its power, insight, and. to use a phrase of her own, pride of word. The only reservation tenable was that since the author, a middle-aged New Zealand schoolteacher, had written of a middle-aged woman who taught school, it was possible that the force of her novel sprang from circumstance, not art. Incense to Idols removes this possibility...
...heroine is shatteringly beautiful, amoral, narcotically charming, and men queue up to destroy themselves for her. Such a description might come from any dust jacket, but Novelist Ashton-Warner's portrait is all but unique. Germaine de Beauvais. a young Parisian concert pianist who exiles herself to New Zealand after the death of her husband, is a woman as convincingly evoked as Emma Bovary or Molly Bloom. The narrative is a first-person reverie; a stream of consciousness, then a torrent, then a willful, feminine shutting down of thought. Germaine is mirrored in the flow of words as well...
...CRANE Hastings, New Zealand...
Denmark's artistic genius has primarily been a household affair. Some 8,000 years before Christ, Danes were polishing and shaping bits of bone and amber into small beasts and birds to be used as both ornaments and currency. Six thousand years later, the farmers of Jutland and Zealand were fashioning bowls and beakers as sophisticated as any found anywhere in Europe. In time, bronze, silver and gold objects appeared: the viking bracelets and necklaces on display at the Met could have been the work of the finest goldsmiths...
...plans to spend $1,800,000 on a duplicate instrument-landing system at McMurdo Sound. The present system works well enough, but if electronic gremlins were to put it out of action in foul weather, airplanes heading in from New Zealand would be in a bad way with no place to land and no possibility of getting back to their starting point. "It's expensive," says Admiral Tyree of the duplication, "but what's money against lives...