Word: calcutta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exhibit to see was the show from modern India at the Smithsonian. The catalogue lists nothing earlier than 1900, warns that "those who expect to meet only a pleasant exoticism are bound to be disappointed." To show how India's artists are breaking away from mannered tradition, Calcutta's Academy of Fine Arts and the All India Association of Fine Arts assembled some 300 objects from ivory elephants to embroidered shawls, and a full gallery of 172 contemporary paintings. In subject, the canvases range from old Hindu rituals to present-day Indian life, but in style they...
...Ingalls the mixture of Sanskrit scholarship and Indian history is vital, since he as long viewed them as inseparable. He is one of the few Sanskrit scholars to study the language in Indian. He and his wife sweltered almost a vear in Calcutta while Ingalls struggled through difficult tests with a logician poet called Kalipada...
...pier-maché interplanetary vehicles. With these props Sam can roll into a picture at the drop of a dollar. Says he: "We don't get stories. We get titles and then write stories around them or to fit them. For instance, we had this title Flame of Calcutta. Naturally, we had that area of India around Bombay in mind, and naturally we worked in those old Arab tribes...
...East Pakistan tramped 70,000 Hindus. They came on foot along dusty roads, carrying young and aged, with household goods loaded in bullock carts or in large bundles balanced on their heads. They crammed into train compartments or perched precariously on undercarriage beams. Thousands fled by steamer to Calcutta or jammed into buses. They clogged the roads and small wayside stations and spread out over adjoining fields. Most of them had no food, and the countryside was soon stripped bare of everything edible. They had no idea where to go. Many, Hindu and Moslem alike, complained of rough police treatment...
...Bonars Univ., India; Carl B. Schmitt, Jr. to study history at the Univ. of Florence; Francis H. Sleeper to study politics and Arabic at Fouad Univ., Cairo; Pat Y. Spillman to study architecture at the Univ. of Rome; Walter M. Spink to study fine arts at the Indian Museum, Calcutta; Lowis W. Spitz to study European history at the Univ. of Vienua; Harold M. Thewlis to study political science at the Univ. of Paris; Frederic C. Thomas, Jr. to study Arabic at the American Univ., Cairo; Jack Undenk to study French Literature at the Univ. of Paris; John W. Wade...