The embrace of Zen was fed from three sources: the returning G. I.’s who had experienced Asian culture while serving in the Pacific theatre; the writings of such Zen populisers as Daisetz Suzuki and Alan Watts; and the growing Asian-American population, especially on the West coast, that had brought with them, or carried down, inherited religious sensibilities.

The bald patch on his hip was hairing over and he no longer limped.

No more extravagantly wayward great lady than Maria del Pílar Teresa Cayetana, thirteenth Duchess of Alba, treads the eighteenth-century stage, and no imperious great lady (her principal enemy being the Queen, and to a lesser extent Godoy) more democratic in her waywardness; for the distinctive mark of Baroquism in the latter half of this century is that curious semi-exhibitionist, semi-expiatory, quasi-Dostoievskeian craving on the nobility’s part to share the companionship, the caprices, and even the costume of the proletariat.

Empire matinees in lingerie stuffs with trimmings of lace and embroidery are shown in great variety.