Word: oriental
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...library suspects will be stolen or mutilated. Frenetically, Gridley re-examined some of his old favorites: Robinson's Sexual Truths, Curiosa of the Flagellants, and The Hindu Art of Love. Finally, he came to rest on the thirty volume set, Eastern Love, a Collection of Amorous Tales from the Orient...
...than in the usual mess of pink petals strewn about the stage; best of all, the cast is almost entirely Japanese. We are, as I said, almost convinced that Madama Butterfly is really about Japan-but Puccini's music spoils the illusion. Strip away the evocations of the inscrutable Orient-pentatonic scales, xylophones and chimes-and you discover the same handful of juicy, sentimental arias and duets that constitute the enduring appeal of all of Puccini's operas. It's Le Boheme again, and only a little bit tainted by that turn-of-the-century enthusiasm for "all one sees...
...Public Works Minister Pierre Gemayel was too realistic for that, went ahead and ordered longshoremen to unload the ship. Then, to the shock of Arab zealots, he demanded a "complete revision'' of boycott regulations, which, he said, were rooted in "chaos and fantasy." L'Orient, a major Lebanese daily, was bolder still, flatly urged the "defunct Arab League" to end its "ridiculous" boycott procedures...
Since the days when the Yankee clippers sailed to the ports of the Orient, Americans have had a nodding acquaintance with the civilization of China. Yet the study of Chinese art is still in its infancy. A year ago, the citizens of five U.S. cities, visiting a show sent by the government of Nationalist China, discovered the magnificence of the old Peking Palace Museum treasures. Last week another dazzling and instructive exhibition-though inevitably smaller-went on display at Manhattan's Pierpont Morgan Library...
...Stuart, 86, one of the ablest of the Old China Hands and the last U.S. ambassador on the mainland (1946-53), a spare, scholarly Presbyterian missionary who in 1919 founded China's No. 1 Christian university, American-endowed Yenching, and saw this center of Western learning in the Orient survive Japanese occupation only to become a Marxist-Leninist thought factory; in Washington, D.C. Chosen as ambassador by President Truman's special envoy, General George Marshall, Stuart vainly attempted to bring about a peaceful settlement between China's warring Communists and Nationalists, aptly remarked before the Reds finally...