Word: orientale
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In the years since V-J day, the U.S. and Japan had developed a bond unique between an Occidental and an Oriental nation. The ties ranged from the nostalgic memories of Japan brought home by hundreds of thousands of ex-G.I.s to such carefully nurtured manifestations of official friendship...
To Japanese-who hold to the characteristically Oriental belief that if the majority of a group wants a rifle and a determined minority insists on no rifle, the proper solution is to get half a rifle-Kishi's entirely legal maneuver constituted a heinous sin known as "the tyranny...
National elections in Britain and France are run off in three to six weeks. Even in such leisurely Oriental nations as Burma and Cambodia, where political campaigns are measured off by astrologers, an election is no more time-consuming than two months. In an age of jet planes and television...
Now a resident of Hawaii, Kono was so asthmatic as a child that his worried mother tried such Oriental remedies as burning small amounts of fluff directly against his body. In 1945, while he and his family were quartered in a wartime relocation camp, Kono began fooling around with weights...
¶ Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920) wrote only a handful of works in his 36 years, but at the time of his death, shortly after the Boston Symphony gave the premiere of his Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan, he was already regarded as a daring and promising talent. A teacher...