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Gist of Author Lin's philosophy is that Occidentals need to be taught "a wise disenchantment and a hearty enjoyment of ife."

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Few Occidentals are aware of Mustafa Nahass Pasha, a statesman who greatly resembles in appearance plump, black-mustachioed King Fuad I of Egypt.

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Occidentals want to go on hearing the sweet music of trade in the orient.

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One night last week a Lockheed Orion of his new Lineas Aereas Occidentals roared into Los Angeles, completing its first 1,700-mi. trip from Mexico City in 10 hr.

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“Oh, no. He thought I should know the background. You Occidentals perpetuate a good many myths too.”

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck