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The Harvard Book Store is showing some contemporary paintings by young Korean painters, several of whom have won the Korean National Exhibition. Most of the works are examples of traditional Oriental themes--landscapes, bird and flower scenes, waterfalls--done in watercolor or brush and ink. All are for sale and...
As Premier from 1955 to 1963, Caramanlis presided over the longest period of economic and political stability in Greece's turbulent postwar history. Campaigning for reelection, he once boasted that he had "transformed Greece from an Oriental village to a European country." He laid the foundations for Greece'...
To qualify Israeli terrorism as being justified on the basis of past persecution is at best questionable. One must realize that many leaders of the Palestinian liberation movement are oriental Christians--another persecuted group. Arthur Faris
WILLIAM McNEILL, U.S. historian (University of Chicago): If you measure leadership by impact, then you would have to name Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius, the great prophets of the world. Among political leaders, Alexander may have been the greatest. He brought the Greek and Oriental civilizations together, and it's...
Like an Oriental scroll painting that sees the light only when its owner wish es to enjoy it, K'ang-hsi's words and sentiments have hardly faded with the years. A man achingly alive to art and nature, he wrote of the exhilaration of fine horsemanship and...