Word: orientale
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Downed Magnum. In his 74 years, Nehru traveled an immense distance-from spoiled child to charismatic leader, from model English gentleman to Oriental father figure. Born in the northern Indian city of Allahabad, he belonged to a wealthy, Westernized family of the highest Brahmin class. When he was 15, the...
Sir: Where in the hell are the good Samaritans who are supposed to inhabit our good land? Our people seem to have adopted an Oriental attitude when it comes to aiding their fellow man. This viewpoint is well known to men who served in the Orient and watched victims of...
Courtly Advantage. The battle is not really equal-but that fits perfectly into the oriental scheme of things. Only 34 in. sq., the dainty pakpao is less than half as big as the bulky (85 in. sq.) chula, which takes as many as 50 men to control. But the pakpaos...
Brazilian tall tales may be a hair taller and several cubits broader than those told elsewhere, or so this elaborately old-fashioned bawdy comedy sets out to prove. Captain Vasco Moscoso de Aragão, Master Mariner, is in fact a master fake. Craving romance, he has procured himself a...
In turn, man may aspire to personal Buddhahood through ridding himself of such worldly attachments as family and his ego. Between god and man are the bodhisattvas (or saints), who have nobly rejected nirvana (or the utter annihilation of self) to minister to the needs of mankind. Also in between...