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Born. To Virginia Graham Tchivi-djian, 18, daughter of Evangelist Billy; and Stephan Tchividjian, 23, Armenian-descended businessman son of a financier who is Billy's strongest supporter in Switzerland: their first child, a son (and first grandchild for the 45-year-old Graham, who sailed to London last week to organize another spiritual crusade next year in Britain); in Asheville...
...objected that France, because of its long standing importance in American universities, deserves forty times as much attention as Brazil, there are better examples. Eight courses are listed under Akkadian in the catalogue. There are eight courses for undergraduates alone in Arabic. Three courses are taught in Armenian, four in Persian, four in Turkish and so forth...
Plain Fury. Her career in contemporary sounds began in 1958 with a Rome performance of John Cage's Aria with Fontana Mix, in which phrases in English, French, Italian, Armenian and Russian were scattered all over the scale, with marginal indications that they be sung in a "baby or Marilyn Monroe voice," a "Marlene Dietrich foggy voice," or a jazz singer's voice. There were also-as there are in much of the music she sings-passages calling for whatever noises she cared to make -a dog's bark, a grunt, a sigh. The audience responded with...
...Cyprus, Poland, Finland, and all the Near East. Guests from other faiths included top U.S. Lutheran Franklin Clark Fry, Willem Visser 't Hooft of the World Council, Roman Catholic Benedictine monks, and delegations from the Coptic Church of Egypt, the Nestorians of Iraq and Syria, the Armenian Catholicate of Cilicia...
Pope John, was "just fine," says one Vatican priest, "when John could make the big decisions." Gregory Peter Aga-gianian, 67, is something of a scholar, but he is an Armenian, wears a beard, and has shown little aptitude for experiment as chief of the church's missions...