Word: orientale
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Lord Macaulay's lordly eloquence had carried the day for English against Oriental rivals. He had heaped scorn on India's backward tongues-they taught "medical doctrines which would disgrace an English farrier, astronomy which would move laughter in girls at an English boarding school, history abounding with...
In other exhibits are war clubs, blowguns, wooden drums, flutes and grinding stones. Beside each object from the Americas is its Oriental counterpart. The people on opposite sides of the great ocean even shared, and share still, a peculiar vice: chewing narcotic plant materials mixed with lime to release the...
Oriental Slave Dance. The life dedicated to the task of being a paragon of fashion for American women began 38 years ago, far from the U.S. and far from fashion. Lisa was born in the small Swedish town of Uddevalla (present pop. 22,675), the daughter of Dr. Samuel Bern...
Although her parents sent her to cooking school ("with the idea that I should be a good housewife"), Lisa had her heart and her nimble feet set on dancing. The town still remembers how, in a school play, she stole the show dancing the role of an Oriental slave.
The State Department's brazen assertion of its own utter guiltlessness made less than no sense, notably in view of the fact that it sank $2 billion into a situation it had long regarded as hopeless. From Congress, Connecticut's John Davis Lodge snapped: "Apparently the Administration would...