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"The successful, efficient, intelligent, respectable bankers, businessmen, industrialists, community leaders, architects, engineers, etc., who build up a World's Fair in 1939-though they probably have a good many erotic activities-would attach very little significance to the physical relationship between a man and a woman. . . .
His book will not make many Western converts, but the Yoga fortitude he showed is unquestionable. Ceremonials in the windowless temple room, lit with thousands of butter lamps, frequently lasted from sunrise to sunset, with 10,000 monks repeating one chant up to 108,000 times. Author Bernard braved the...
Adventure and romance, not flight from suicide, says Author Anderson, was the aim of the swarthy, 21-year-old ex-clerk-farmer-teacher who signed on the Acushnet ("Pequod") at New Bedford one winter day in 1840. Other travelers' accounts (which he shrewdly disparaged) furnished the main basis for...
The weather is not the sole cause of their tension: the close, gossipy air of the colony contains other conflicts. Fern, sought by a young Army officer, is in love with the cynical Ransome. Miss MacDaid. despite race-prejudice, is hopelessly enamored of the high-souled but brown-skinned Major...
Some readers, baffled by the famine-price set on this slim, 81-page volume (all the more remarkable in view of Steinbeck's proletarian themes), may jump to the wrong conclusion that The Red Pony contains erotic or esoteric matter too caviarish for the general. On the contrary, The...