Word: mesopotamia
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...unpleasant ghosts. But, be advised, there are no women getting in the way, there are no beturbaned sheiks mouthing fury into their ratty whiskers. The "Lost Patrol" is the plain story of how eleven soldiers out of twelve in a British horse troop met their deaths in Mesopotamia, 1916. And, thanks be to somebody or other, the movies have discovered that simplicity is a good horror, even a good dramatic, medium...
...Lost Patrol (RKO) is an account of what happens to twelve members of a British cavalry troop in Mesopotamia in 1915. Arabs, firing from ambush, kill the troop's captain. The rest reach an oasis. The first night, Arabs shoot a sentry, steal the horses. The next morning a cockney soldier climbs a palm tree to get a look at the enemy. He topples down with a bullet in his heart. The sergeant (Victor McLaglen) draws lots, sends two of his men to scout for help. They come back dead, strapped to the backs of horses. A rescue plane...
...from the time he became Minister of Munitions until in 1916 he forced out the Coalition Government and got the Premiership himself, he fought a spirited battle with the War Office. He proves by the record that he was against the disastrous Dardanelles campaign and the mismanaged affair in Mesopotamia; that as early as January 1, 1915 he saw the hopelessness of the stalemate on the Western Front, and urged an attack elsewhere...
...that hour the Turkish Grand National Assembly proclaimed the Republic with Kemal as President and entitled him to unlimited reelection. The genius of his program lay in that he renounced all the former non-Turkish possessions of the Ottoman Empire-Syria. Palestine, Mesopotamia, Arabia, Egypt. Unlike new Germany, new Turkey is led by men who have resolutely forgotten the past. From the start President Kemal, like President Roosevelt ten years later, launched his country on a policy of economic nationalism. Incidental to this basic policy, and far more spectacular, were his Westernizing reforms, his turning of Turkey's face...
Fine Arts 1c, like other Fine Arts courses, is wholly factual. It consists entirely in memorizing slides and lecture notes. As the catalogue announces, it treats plastic art from the beginnings in Mesopotamia to the end of Ancient Times at the beginning of the Dark Ages. With Fine Arts 1d in the second half, it is the Harvard Course of concentrated culture for Casual Sophomores...