Word: armenian
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Voyeuristic Shudder. Bad times became a way of life. The Muslim Ottoman Empire reduced Armenians to second-class citizens; then, as Asia Minor lurched toward "modernity," Turkey began its series of oppressions. They ended with lethal, unprovoked sweeps across the hills, torturing and killing no one knows how many millions. In 1910, a recent Oxford graduate named Arnold Toynbee meticulously described the "fiendish" mutilations and abasements. As late as 1918 Henry Morgenthau, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, protested the mass killings of Armenian women and children. The Turkish Minister of the Interior gave a blanket reply to such plaintiffs: "Those...
Involvement in the Arab-Israeli dispute by a cleric is far from unique. Priests of the Armenian Church have worked as agents for both the Israelis and the Arabs; Russian Orthodox clergymen in the Middle East have served as spies for the Soviet Union; even Franciscan monks have been suspected of engaging in intelligence activities for the Arabs. The ease with which clerics can travel across national frontiers makes them especially valuable as operatives. They are often motivated by an intellectual commitment to the cause they serve-and sometimes, alas, by the enormous sums of money they can make. Israeli...
...Fogg has dusted off some of its Islamic treasures and mounted a small but sumptuous display of Persian, Turkish, and Armenian objects from the 12th to the 18th century. Ceramics, paintings, ceremonial armor and calligraphy have all been crowded into a small gallery on the second floor. The exhibition has no special theme--it's just a chance for the Fogg to show off some exotic and beautiful...
...popular. The building is a visual delight, from the entrance, prefaced by pools, fountains and water plants, to a riverfront restaurant, supervised by a chef who presides over the best chicken Kiev this side of Leningrad. It has huge, non-Stakhanovite art montages, three movie theaters, an exhibition of Armenian archaeological artifacts and, in keeping with Expo's theme, ingenious models of air-and water-purification systems...
...range of foods from many lands to be sampled includes Indonensian "satay" (beef tidbits on bamboo skewers), Polish "golabki" (stuffed cabbage), German potato salad and American barbecued ribs. Others include Armenian, Bengali, Chinese, Egyptian, French, Greek, Hawaiian, Indian, Irish, Italian, Portuguese, Scottish, Turkish and Ukrainian dishes. For those with a sweet tooth there will be many pastries and an international candy booth...