Word: eurasian
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Here, rather than in China, Buddha grew to his tallest: a 175-ft.-high statue hewn from a sandstone cliff in the Afghan valley of Bamian-a display of gigantism inherited more from the colossal marble Caesars of Rome than from the subtler Orient. It was also in this Eurasian melting pot that Buddha acquired his characteristic togalike robe, borrowed from Rome. Likewise Hercules (opposite) holds the hero's traditional club, but his head is crowned with Serapis' sacred basket of mysteries, symbolizing the Nile's fertility...
...Suyin made a literary reputation of sorts by telling, in A Many-Splendored Thing, all the revealing intimate details of her carryings-on in Hong Kong with a married British foreign correspondent who got killed in the Korean War. Several autobiographical exposés later, Eurasian Suyin, now 48, tells again of herself, this time as a child, and of the declining fortunes of her father's Mandarin family at a time of chaos, civil war and foreign depredation in China. "The characters in this book," says the author, "are not fictional, neither are the events...
...careful inspection and analysis by staff members of the Arnold Arboretum has established the identity of the trees along Memorial Drive that are to be moved for underpasses as "a hybrid of long standing between an American and Eurasian species of Platanus...
...fiction. To absolve buddy Taylor, Airline Executive Glenn Ford undertakes an investigation of his own. Needless to say, Flyboy Taylor turns out to have been gay, dashing and brave, a model pilot who survived such hazards as a wartime encounter with Jane Russell and an irreproachable idyl with a Eurasian ichthyologist (Nancy Kwan...
...story, which transpires at a Caribbean resort amid plastic palmettos and other touches of tropical realism, can best be described as follows: zzzzzzz. The players are equally interesting. Nancy Kwan, who claims to be a genuine Eurasian, looks like an American chorine with Scotch-taped eyelids. Jill St. John, who considers herself a comedienne, puts up a good front. Robert Goulet, whose talent is for singing, doesn't sing. And Keenan Wynn, who has probably been in worse pictures, looks as if he can't remember when...