Word: orientale
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Morocco would change Delacroix profoundly. For the next 30 years, the last half of his life, images from "the land of lions and leather," as he called it in a letter from Meknes, would recur in his work, meeting and dictating its needs; the innumerable drawings and watercolors he made...
For now, Rosalie overshadows the direction and even the music with stunningly ugly and capricious costumes. At a press conference she explained that since no one has seen a god or a giant or a dragon, she had to create them from her imagination. In fact the sources are painfully...
Led by Peter B. Machinist, the Hancockprofessor of Hebrew and other Oriental languages,the course will examine the "biblical book of Jobalong with related texts, ancient, medieval andmodern...establish[ing] the literary andphilosophical traditions in which Job was composedand the literary and philosophical legacy it hasleft," according to the official...
In any event, after completing high school in June 1964, Zhirinovsky boarded a plane for Moscow to attend the prestigious Oriental Languages Institute at Moscow State University. The move was surprising for a provincial boy with no family connections, and it has fueled speculation that he must have had help...
The circumstances of his expulsion are not clear. According to Nuzhet Kandemir, the Turkish ambassador to the U.S., Zhirinovsky was arrested and expelled from Turkey in 1969 as a KGB agent. Students back at the Oriental Languages Institute heard that the Turks had thrown him in prison for passing out...