Word: orientale
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A wild familiar Irish tune was in the air. It shrilled and banged from the oriental instruments of an outlandish procession. First on a white charger rode Pandit Motilal Nehru, President of the Indian National Congress, followed by 20 elephants magnificently caparisoned. Next came famed Mahatma Gandhi, a wizened, self...
About 20% of the convention delegates, mostly from the South and the West, were "profamily" conservatives who opposed some of the more controversial proposals. There were three "hot button" resolutions-those covering the ERA, abortion and lesbian rights-on which the delegates were sharply divided. With other resolutions, even the...
John Paul was the first person outside the congregation to learn of its choice; he was telephoned the news while on a visit to Austria. Although the Pope does not know Kolvenbach, the Vatican had approved his 1981 appointment as rector of Rome's Pontifical Oriental Institute. Kolvenbach became...
Java, 1942. A P.O.W. camp, where men are men-except for the Japanese guards, who are wily beasts. Through the sweltering days and ominous nights, three British prisoners run variations on the national character. Hicksley-Ellis (Jack Thompson) conducts his impotent belligerence by the book; ragged, resilient Jack Celliers (David...
As he did in the superb erotic melodrama In the Realm of the Senses (1976), Japanese Writer-Director Nagisa Oshima is portraying-for Western viewers and his own Westernized countrymen-the social compulsions that once made Japan unique, and uniquely feared. In the earlier film, a prostitute and the husband...