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...WANING light of the imperial sun the great Kublai Khan listens to the words of a young explorer from Venice. The Khan's dominions have grown in scope and compass out of understanding, their diverse, unimagined wonders lost in last formlessness. As Marco Polo describes the fantastic cities he has visited in his wanderings, his words are a dam against despair. The emperor hopes to discern in them, "through the walls and towers destined to crumble, the tracery of a pattern so subtle it could escape the termites' gnawing...
...Moslem conception of paradise made an ideal recruiting device. An account written by Marco Polo reported that Hasan educated the Fida'is to believe every conceivable bodily pleasure awaited them after death. As a foretaste, he had them heavily drugged and transported to magnificent gardens constructed near his palace; there, under the influence of heavy doses of hashish,* the Fida'is were ministered to for several days by beautiful women, then drugged unconscious again and returned to real life convinced they had seen paradise. After that, they would undertake any suicide mission...
...University of Toronto. There, he majored in "conventional Western history," and planned to go to law school until he happened to briefly sample Asian history. Before that course, Woodside had had no contact with Asian culture--he couldn't speak the languages, and he knew little about anything between Marco Polo and Mao Tse-tung. Suddenly, new worlds opened...
...This half-century was the point in Japanese culture that, in its secular largesse and curiosity about the real world, most resembled the European Renaissance. Indeed, it was during the Momoyama that the West's idea of Japan was shaped, as the Portuguese reached what had been since Marco Polo's time the fabled island of Cipangu - an arrival no less deep in its implications than Commodore Perry's in Edo in 1853. The Met's show allows us to see, as never before, why our own cultural ancestors were so stricken with amazement...
...Marco DeFunis sued the University of Washington Law School because he was denied admission in 1971. DeFunis claimed he was better qualified than minority applicants who were admitted on the basis of their race. The Supreme Court declared the case moot last year because DeFunis had already graduated...