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Oriental rug and weaving benefit: for refugees, at Phillips Brooks House, Harvard Yard, Saturday, 11-5.
"Shades of Lauder blue are everywhere. Porcelain bowls of French beaded flowers, porcelain birds of jeweled hues, drapes copied from the Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna . . . Oriental carpets resting on Lauder blue carpeting . . . It's very thrilling." Estee Lauder loves her lavish office. She is equally entranced by her three-story...
On the one hand, says Oleg Grabar, Khan Professor of Islamic Art, the department's 17 faculty members include some of the world's foremost art critics, connoiseurs and historians. The department is regarded, with those of Yale, Johns Hopkins and Princeton, as one of the nation's best. And...
John M. Rosenfield, Rockefeller Professor of Oriental Art, is the world's only senior professor in his field, according to Grabar. Grabar himself is known as the most prolific historian of Islamic art, and has acquired local fame as an entertaining and popular instructor of Fine Arts 13.
Even as they learn about new cuisines, Americans are busy naturalizing foreign ingredients into native dishes: tofu, the cheeselike soybean curd, as the base for burgers and ice cream; tacos and pita as sandwich holders; chili oils and fruit sauces for barbecues. Surimi, a preserved-fish product developed in Japan...