Word: orientalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within a century, O.E. Baker warned in a pamphlet on "the population prospect in relation to the world's agricultural resources," America will face an Orient doubled in population, and a united Europe with ten times more people. This country will be supporting a smaller, more aged population, "weak-ened by the love of luxury and ease...
Slender, faun-faced Dancer Weidman, 46, is the son of a Lincoln, Neb. fireman. He joined Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis famed Denishawn group in 1920. On a tour of the Orient with them, it suddenly came over him how absurd it was for a group of Americans to perform classic Oriental dances for the Orientals. "I said to myself, 'Why am I here trying to do their dances. . . . They must wonder how we dance ourselves. How do we?' " In 1929 he teamed up with another Denishawn star, Doris Humphrey, and set out to supply an answer...
...Father Alexander: "Your grandchildren may see the center of power in the world go around to the East. If we give its people the best of our Christian tradition, and not the combination of Christianity and 19th Century politics which they have for the most part been handed, the Orient may become a great democratic power. The Orient needs a democracy whose rights are protected by religion against the likelihood of degenerating into a dictatorship. The opportunity for Christian missions there is seven or eight times-in some places 100 times-what it was before...
Simultaneous with the announcement of his withdrawal from active work at the University, Professor Pound disclosed plans to return to China this summer to complete the work he began last year on he codification of Chinese law. He will leave for the Orient some time towards the close of the summer after preparatory work here at the University. "We need six weeks in the library before we can go ahead," he explained, adding that China now has no adequate library of comparative law, The Japanese spoiled such institutions during their years of military occupation...
...Sidi Mohamed of Morocco last month shattered precedent by making a trip to the internationalized Moroccan city of Tangier. There he cut from his prepared speech a friendly reference to the French Union, lauded the Arab League. Said he: "Morocco is . . . solidly linked with the Arab countries of the Orient...