 But with what hideous rapidity Japan is modernizing, after all! — not in costume, or architecture, or habit, but in heart and manner. The emotional nature of the race is changing. Will it ever become beautiful again?  The Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn - Sayfa 412Lafcadio Hearn tarafından - 1910 - 468 sayfaTam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | Sheila K. Johnson - 1991 - 212 sayfa
...lamented in a private letter: But with what hideous rapidity Japan is modernizing, after all!—not in costume, or architecture, or habit, but in heart...harmony with the emotional character of the West? 2 Hearn also knew the cost of the old character and society, whose passing he lamented: "The old kindliness... | |
 | Lafcadio Hearn, Louis Allen - 1992 - 324 sayfa
...optimistic with something of Old Japan. . . . But with what hideous rapidity Japan is modernising!... not in costume, or architecture, or habit, but in...is changing. Will it ever become beautiful again?' (6 August \892JapaneseLetters., pp. 41 1-413) It is the not unfamiliar reaction of someone who gives... | |
 | James L. Huffman - 2003 - 334 sayfa
...September 27, 1892, HVP, Harvard University. 13 Japan, 1893-1901: Modernity — and All That Meant With what hideous rapidity Japan is modernizing, after all! — not in costume, architecture, or habit, but in heart and manner. . . . Will it ever become beautiful again? — Lafcadio... | |
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