Sublime

labored to revive traditional forms of hula, but they also put themselves on display.

“tycoon” came from taikun, Japanese for “warlord.”

Again, in correspondence with other countries your country’s attitude is often arrogant, and when addressing them the language used is that of giving commands to a vassal state. This is something that all foreigners find disagreeable. At present the major countries in the world are England, America, Russia, and France. Your country is about to open

In Japan, they used to tell of a beautiful pearl fisher named Tokoyo who saved her father from a long and cruel exile in the Oki Islands. Single-handedly, she sailed a coracle to find him, and then as ransom for his freedom she killed the evil god Yofune-Nushi. Like Beowulf, the Icelandic hero, she dived into the roaring deep to meet and murder her

Some proponents of the new “moi criticism” began writing full-fledged academic autobiographies,

Krakatoa,

Malcolm Cowley assisted me in three important ways: His New Yorker profile of Perkins, “Unshaken Friend,” published in 1944, was the most comprehensive account of Perkins’s life to date.