Word: orientale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In the fall of 1946 when I was studying at the School for Oriental Studies in the University of London I received a request from Prof. Karl Menges of Columbia asking me if I could help Nicholas Poppe who was hiding in the Ruhr to escape American and British attempts...
Next to Muzak and talking cash registers, few spin-offs of modern technology are as irritating as the junk phone call. At virtually any hour of the night or day, the unsuspecting telephone subscriber is likely to receive unsolicited sales pitches -- some of them prerecorded -- for anything from opera tickets...
Rockefeller Professor of Oriental Art John M. Rosenfield, who teaches "Monuments" and is a member of the faculty's Standing Committee on the Core, says that the confusion surrounding course lotteries damages the Core's educational mission.
Cage says that in New York he met Dai Setz Suzuki, a teacher of Zen Buddhism and Oriental philosophy, who instructed him in the art of randomness.
A native German, educated at the University of Munich, Loehr taught Oriental art in China, Munich and Michigan, before being appointed Harvard's first Rockefeller Professor of Oriental Art in 1960 and curator of Oriental art at the Fogg Art Museum, posts he held until his retirement in 1974.