Word: mongolians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...schoolteacher, 49-year-old Owen Lattimore grew up in China. He roamed the high, bitter steppes and the burning deserts of Asia's hinterlands, became the familiar of Uzbek traders and Mongolian camel herders, and his honeymoon was a trek by camel, sled and shaggy pony through Chinese Turkestan...
...said Marini, by the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in Rome's Pi azza del Campidoglio. But there was noth ing conventionally heroic about Marini's riders ; they were scared, not proud. They looked, indeed, very much like lonely, out size babies mounted bareback on broad, unbridled Mongolian ponies - going no where. Marini had carved them with mingled delicacy and deliberate awkward ness, sacrificing handsomeness to pathos...
...year old "living Buddha," who had 17 chances to enter heaven but preferred to return to earth to help others become as holy as he, visited the College yesterday, attending a Mongolian class and staying with his godson in Adams House...
...United States last year at the bidding of the United States government and his old friend Owen Lattimore, Professor in the Page School of international Relations at Johns Hopkins and father of godson David. The (physically) 60-year-old Gegen tells seminar students in the Page School about Mongolian history and customs, and spends his spare time at home with the Lattimores in Baltimore...
...godson David in a combination of Chinese and sign language. They make remarkably few mistakes, but neither do they any much. Lattimore was able to get a decision from the Lama as to whether he should be called Dilowa Gegen or Dilowa Hutukhtu in this story: The Mongolian averred that, while Hutukhtu also denotes part of his political position, Gegen is the more specific name...