Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEN U.S. Commodore M. C. Perry opened Japan to Western influence in 1853, he dealt a death blow in its own homeland to a waning but graceful and distinctively Japanese art-the woodblock print. But the clean, flat patterns of Japanese printers had a major influence on Western painters from Whistler to Matisse. A century later, the influence has been reversed. Japanese artists, freshly inspired by the works of European post-impressionists and abstractionists, are breathing new life into an old form...
...recognize Indian jurisdiction over thousands of Indians resident in Tibet. ("These persons who have been residing in Tibet for long periods are, to all intents and purposes, Chinese nationals," said Peking.) The chance that the 12,396 Tibet refugees in India would be able to return to their homeland soon is "very small," said Nehru...
...third of the nation upon which foreign and domestic demagogues play. Any real effort to improve living conditions in Jordan, such as the recent Hammarskjold irrigation schemes, runs afoul of the refugees' suspicion that it is a plot to divert them from their right to recover their lost homeland in Israel. Last week, standing slim, straight and small in his field marshal's uniform on the balcony at Tulkarm, Hussein could see the broad, fertile fields of Israel half a mile away, fields once worked by Arabs. The crowds below were shouting: "King Hussein, our leader, our leader...
...third convention of the National Association of Syrian Lebanese American Clubs had been arranged, in the words of its president, Cosmo Ansara of Springfield, Mass., "to reintroduce the older people who were born over here to their former homeland and to give the second generation an opportunity to see for themselves the places from which their parents came." Added Joseph Sado of New York: "We believe that we are acting in consonance with President Eisenhower's people-to-people program...
...convivial babel of West German beer halls, the tune is pure Tin Pan Alley. But Sailor Freddy Quinn's plunking baritone puts something purely Teutonic into the German lyrics ("Brennend heisser Wüstensand, fern, so fern das Heimatland-Burning hot desert sand, far, so far, the homeland"). That well-forgotten U.S. ballad, Memories Are Made of This, beats out of the German jukeboxes as Heimweh (homesickness), and the manufactured nostalgia seems violently contagious. In three years, Freddy's Heimweh has sold more than 2,000,000 copies. It is the alltime European pop-record champ...