Word: orientalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Every nation, small or great ... or incorporated against its will into the structure of another state, should be free in its inner life. . . . [We declare] annulled all the ... treaties by which the Tsar's Government together with its allies, through force and corruption, enslaved the peoples of the Orient, and especially the Chinese nation, in order to profit the Russian capitalists, the Russian landlords and the Russian generals...
Eisen left vaudeville to become a Brooklyn chiropractor, and Kaye joined a traveling vaudeville troupe, went to the Orient where, acting in front of non-English audiences, he was forced to master the high art of pantomime...
...watches delicate operations in Manhattan or Hollywood hospitals. For more active relaxation, he plays golf (in the low 80s) or travels with the Brooklyn Dodgers. A close friend of Leo Durocher, the Bums' manager, he was the Lip's battery mate on a U.S.O. tour to the Orient. Periodically, Kaye frets about his health-which is phenomenally good-and gulps vitamins galore or retreats to an upstate New York health farm, where he hikes ten miles before breakfast...
...foot, 200-pound Foo Tak-yam last week visited Macao's Buddhist Kuan Yin Temple. His partly pious, partly sensual intention was to smoke opium and contemplate a successful, sinful life that began in peddling doughnuts and culminated in ruling the fabulous gambling industry of the Orient's Monte Carlo. Foo's celebration was under way when three Chinese entered the hilltop pagoda, pulled pistols from their long black gowns and whisked him away in a black sedan. Four days later his son received a preliminary ransom demand: one picul of gold (133⅓ lbs. in weight...
...ancient fiber (the Egyptians wrapped mummies in ramie cloth), ramie is the world's best for many purposes. But it is hard to separate the bark (decorticate) from the ramie fiber. To date, decortication has been done economically only in the Orient with coolie hand labor. The plant thrives in the South, but ramie has failed in the U.S. as a commercial fiber, for lack of an efficient mechanical decorticator...