Word: orientalist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dark, serious young man named John Albert Wilson went to Chicago to study under the famed Orientalist. Born in Pawling, N. Y., he had graduated from Princeton, got a teaching job at American University in Beirut, Syria, grew so fond of visiting archeological sites in his rattletrap automobile that he once had to walk the 18 miles from Bab to Aleppo in pitch darkness because in his eagerness to be off he had not properly strapped on his spare gasoline supply. After John Wilson got Chicago's Ph. D. in Egyptology, Breasted sent him on an expedition to Luxor...
...hovered anxiously around, a gang of Royal Marines slowly carried ashore 93 brass-trimmed steel trunks. In those trunks were 21,000 separate pieces of imperial Manchu treasure which, lent by the Nanking Government, were leaving China for the first time in history. To help assemble them, the great Orientalist and retired importer George Eumorfopoulos sold his own collection and hurried to the East (TIME, Jan. 28). All 21.000 were unpacked and spread out last week in the Royal Academy's sedate Burlington House, along with other Chinese treasures from collections in the U. S., France, Holland, Sweden, Germany...
Died. James Henry Breasted, 70, famed Orientalist, founder and head of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute; of a hemolytic streptococcic infection; in Manhattan. Finds and ever more finds all over the Near East persuaded him that Egypt was the cradle of civilization and the birthplace of human conscience, whose origin and development he traced. When he was carried ill from the Conte di Savoia last week the Press revived the mythical "Curse of the Pharaohs" (TIME, Feb. 5, 1934), recalled that Oldster Breasted last year snorted: "All tommyrot! I defy that curse. For two weeks I slept...
Swiftly Chicago's faculty rallied to the defense. Cried famed Orientalist James Henry Breasted: "Mr. Walgreen can hardly be unaware of the publicity value of his premature and regrettable use of the daily Press. Nor is it likely that his own publicity agents are unacquainted with the value of this inexpensive form of advertising. ... At the hands of our Huey Longs and Father Coughlins our inherited institutions are indeed in danger. It may be a fair question to ask whether the author of such a destructive public attack . . . has disclosed such a complete lack of any sense of social...
...basement of the Victoria & Albert Museum and in the Buddhist Room of the British Museum last week curators and assistants were ripping open boxes and crates, carefully lifting out ancient bits of precious porcelain. Busy with a group of 200 antique Chinese paintings. Orientalist Laurence Binyon prophesied that a 13th Century landscape that he was cataloging will be one of the British Museum's most popular treasures. Keeper of Oriental Antiquities Robert Lockhart Hobson was most excited about a green bronze ram dating from 1200 B. c. and valued at ?10,000. And there was plenty more: Ming vases...