Word: chitra
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...instance. In the Middle East a good woman is not noticed. Her behavior at a party gives no grounds for later conversation among the guests. I tried my best, but it was difficult to be so self-effacing." After four years she returned to the U.S. with her daughter Chitra, 12. Her son is still in Iran with her husband...
...Thailand's Chakri dynasty two centuries ago, the U.S. was allowed to erect a giant antenna for the President's worldwide communications; normally, the Thais are reluctant to permit structures to soar higher than their ubiquitous Buddhist temples. When Johnson choppered into the Royal Plaza near Chitra-lada Palace for his audience with King Bhumibol Adulyadej and the lovely Queen Sirikit, he was allowed to wear a business suit instead of the traditional cutaway...
Fragility & Philosophy. Everywhere he practices what he calls his "direct and musical approach." In Bangkok last spring, he walked up to Chitra Lada Palace, took out his 100-year-old handmade guitar (picked up in London for $112) and said he wanted to entertain the King of Thailand. He was invited to tea, where a group of high-ranking officials were stiffly collected. He started with some flamenco. Queen Sirikit asked if he wouldn't play something from his own country, like Danny Boy. He played Danny Boy as if it were a New London dairy air. The Thais...
...Functions of American Government"; Elliott Richards, "Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910"; E. S. Roscoe, "Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford"; G. W. E. Russell, "Portraits of the Seventies"; Paul Sabatier, "A Frenchman's Thoughts on the War"; George Santayana, "Egotism in German Philosophy"; George Sorel, "Reflections on Violence"; Rabindranath Tagore, "Chitra," "Songs of Kabir" and "The Post Office"; Sidney Whitman, "Things I Remember"; P. Wilstach, "Mount Vernon, Washington's Home and the Nation's Shrine"; C. D. Winslow, "With the French Flying Corps...