Word: istanbul
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Dani Rodrik '79 went to the American School in Istanbul, Turkey. His college advisor there was a Harvard graduate. According to Rodrik, Harvard knows his school well and understands that "standards are high...
...other modes, Disch shows how terror can arise through the disturbances of ordinary life. In The Asian Shore, a young American scholar living in Istanbul keeps bumping into a bedraggled Turkish woman who seems to know him. It is, he decides at first, a simple case of mistaken identity-until some frightening events make him suspect that the mistake is his own. On a sunny morning, the brother and sister in Let Us Hasten Quickly to the Gate of Ivory try to visit their parents' graves and succumb to "subdued, also meditative horror" when they realize that they...
Richard J. Fabri Istanbul...
...Orient Express sped westward from Istanbul one September day in 1921, a tall, slender young classicist gazed thoughtfully out the window. "I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the Bela Palanka Gorge in the light of the full moon, as our train bore down upon Nish," wrote Arnold Toynbee, who had been covering the Greco-Turkish war for the Manchester Guardian. Before he went to sleep that night, he took out a fountain pen and jotted down "a list of topics" on half a sheet of paper...
...campaign ended last week, the old style had hung on, but by a margin so slim that it left the government with an uncertain mandate. Ecevit, whose Republican People's Party favors bigger social welfare programs and a strongly nationalist foreign policy, racked up big majorities in Ankara, Istanbul and other big cities. But Premier Demirel's support of free enterprise and his appeal to traditional religious values carried the normally conservative rural areas and older voters...