Word: orientale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Family, friends and former students remembered the late Max Loehr, Rockefeller Professor of Oriental Art Emeritus, at a service in Memorial Church yesterday.
As we fought with our ravioli--Brooke considered and rejected the thought of asking for chopsticks--we admired the tassels hanging from the chandeliers and the many garish "Oriental" carvings. Laurie, completely smashed from three Bowls shared by as many women, floated by.
Despite his commiserative subtitle, The Fate of an Ally, William Shawcross does not allow the reader to forget that Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the late Shah of Iran, was a pathetic symbol of a corrupt and repressive regime. His fate was to be thrust, ill-suited by temperament or training, into...
An undergraduate at the University of Illinois at Urbana and a former graduate student of Harvard's History Department, Frye has studied Middle Eastern subjects since he was in junior high, when a copy of Tamerlane, the Earth Shaker fascinated him for the first time with that part of the...
Bangkok alone is breaking world records with its facilities. One of its 17 five-star hotels, the Oriental, is acclaimed by Institutional Investor as the finest in the world; one of its more than 11,000 restaurants is registered in the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest in...