Word: orientale
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Contrary to popular opinion, however, Mr. Bartok is interested in all, not merely his own nation's folk music, although, of course, that of Hungary, as seen in "The Children's Pieces," has exercised the greatest influence on him. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Bartok has no fixed rules for...
The girl from France spoke softly, but her eyes glowed. "You should have known Marseille as it was. One of the things you remember about it is its smell. Not just a smell of fish and the sea, like every harbor city, but a strong, spicy smell which makes you...
After the war Eden took First Class Honors in Oriental Languages at Oxford, and as late as 1941 delighted Turkish troops by shouting at them in their native language: "Give Hitler hell."
Mrs. Schumpeter explained that the Oriental question is much more complicated than in Europe, where the subjugated peoples are on the United Nations side. In Asia the people have to decide whether it is better to be economically subdued by the Western world as it has for years, or by...
Mrs. Schumpeter illustrated how a fairly-treated Oriental people can respond, by referring to the Philippines. There was the only case in the long series of early Allied defeats in which the populace helped the United Nations. This was because Filipinos had had some freedom and the concrete promise of...