Word: orientalistes
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FitzGerald, a mid-Victorian belletrist and amateur Orientalist, carried this principle to an extreme when he translated the 12th century Persian poem The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam. He condensed, combined and reshuffled the stanzas, dropping what did not suit him and pumping in generous transfusions of his own sentimental, post-Darwin fatalism. The result is one of the enduring minor poems of the language-awash with fanciful exoticism, vivid and resonant. But scholars have been scandalized by the liberties that FitzGerald took with the original, and for a century have tried in vain to supplant his version with more literal...
...hope that this action will lead to early talks," he told the nation, "I am taking the first step to de-escalate the conflict. We are reducing-substantially reducing-the present level of hostilities, and we are doing so unilaterally and at once." Observed a State Department Orientalist: "The President in effect committed political suicide before the world. In the Sinic tradition, this is considered a time-honored gesture of sincerity...
Died. Robert Hans van Gulik, 57, Dutch creator of the Judge Dee Chinese mystery tales (The Willow Pattern, Murder in Canton); of cancer; in The Hague. An Orientalist by training and an ambassador by trade (to Japan, Malaysia), van Gulik was studying ancient Asian prose when he found the classic magistrate-detectives of Chinese literature. Supplying Occidental motives but preserving the delicate puzzle plots of the 7th century Tang dynasty, he pitted his wise and wily Dee against tyrants, palace power-seekers and assorted hatchetmen in 17 thrillers...
...Harvard Orientalist and former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer writes in a perceptive analysis of the war, a settlement of any sort may be out of reach "until one side or the other recognizes that it faces eventual defeat." In a Look magazine excerpt from his forthcoming book, Beyond Viet Nam, Reischauer reasons that with negotiations apparently out of the question for the time being, the U.S. has three choices, "all of them unsatisfactory...
...sure, the reaction to his odyssey was not entirely sunny-or partisan, for that matter. Among other critics. Harvard Orientalist Edwin O. Reischauer, who had served ably as Johnson's ambassador to Tokyo, described it as a risky and unnecessary venture that had accomplished little...