Word: orientalist
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Duhamel's colleagues put their cocked hats together, chose instead five Old Guardists-Baron Ernest Seillière, philosopher; Jean Tharaud, novelist; René Grousset, orientalist; Octave Aubry, historian; Robert d'Harcourt, specialist on Germany. Duhamel forthwith resigned. "But why?" chided his late associates. Duhamel's favorites, they said, did not want to be elected anyway...
...nearly dropped my spectacles," said 62-year-old Hugh Alexander Matier. Browsing through the Seattle Art Museum's far eastern collection, scholarly amateur Orientalist Matier stopped short before a piece of heavily carved jade, five inches square. Looking at its two imperial dragons, its authentic yellow tassels and its archaic characters, he was suddenly certain that he had found the long lost Imperial Seal of China's Hsien Feng...
Divorced. Herbert Asbury, 53, slummer in the pasts of U.S. cities (The Gangs of New York, The Barbary Coast, The French Quarter), associate editor of Collier's; by Helen Hahn Asbury, 41, Manhattan advertising executive, sister of repatriated Orientalist Emily Hahn; after 16 years of marriage; in Mexico...
Died. Laurence Binyon, 73, poet. Orientalist ; in Reading, England. He was best known for his World War I ode. For the Fallen* which was widely popularized when broadcast in 1934 by the Prince of Wales at Armistice Day ceremonies. He was the British Museum's keeper of prints & drawings...
Thomas Mann's latest book is dedicated to his good friend, Dr. Heinrich Zimmer, ex-Heidelberg Orientalist, with the words "Returned with thanks." Mann owed Zimmer his plot: a Hindu legend which Dr. Zimmer (who now lives in New Rochelle, N.Y.) had outlined in a lecture on Kali, the Mother Goddess of India, in Switzerland in 1938. The legend...