Word: borneo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Moslems make world news-(see FOREIGN NEWS)-it is usually more political than religious. But to most of the 221,000,000 Moslems between Dakar and Borneo, last week was no different from any other. From Cairo, a TIME correspondent described how a modern Moslem observes one of the world's most exacting religious rituals...
Sterne had his first big show in Berlin, spent a year in a Greek monastery, moved on to India, Burma, Java, and finally Bali. He had never heard of Bali, went there only because he happend to miss the boat to Borneo. But Bali held Sterne for two years, and he can still remember much of it in detail simply by closing his eyes. At first Sterne felt no desire to paint there ("It was art"), but the paintings he brought back with him helped to make Bali a dreamer's byword across the U.S. He feels sure that...
When the Japanese moved into North Borneo in January 1942, the British colony in Sandakan got its orders: "Meet the enemy, resist passively, do not cooperate. We cannot defend you. Goodbye!" Among the 80 men, women & children was Agnes Newton Keith, U.S. author whose Atlantic Monthly $5,000 prizewinning Land Below the Wind had made Borneo seem like a grim, if fascinating, place for so genteel a lady (TIME, Nov. 19, 1939). She had decided to stick it out with her two-year-old son and her British husband, who was North Borneo's Director of Agriculture. Three Came...
...were eating weeds and grass, and plenty of us would have liked to eat each other." For complaining of attempted rape, Mrs. Keith was beaten so badly that two ribs broke. Yet she was the favorite of Camp Commander Colonel Suga, who had read and liked her Borneo book. When the first Allied planes came over Kuching, most of the prisoners were too weak to feel joy. Mrs. Keith, always thin, had lost 30 lbs. when the Australian ground troops took Kuching without a fight. Her six-foot husband came out weighing...
...they are believers, I must take leave to call the Dyaks of Borneo, and the natives of Nigeria and the Papuans also believers, for they believe, too, and most positively, in their demons, spooks, their grimacing medicine men, in the saving power of amulets, scarabs and other trinkets and taboos. . . . And who are the unbelievers? They are, among others, people who do not believe in survival after death, who do not believe in the resurrection of the body or in the infallibility of the Pope ... in the sacrificial and propitiating nature of the Mass. They are the unbelievers, the infidels...