Word: orientalistes
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...tells it, Choreographer George Balanchine likes to create a ballet by "opening the icebox door," rummaging around inside and producing random combinations that look "appetizing."' Sometimes he finds pretty strange things in the icebox. His latest discovery: a rug. Balanchine was inspired by an analysis by Orientalist Arthur Upham Pope of the formal structure of Persian carpets, in which the patterns were compared to polyphony in music and some of the figures to fertility symbols. The resulting work, a diverse, pseudo-Oriental affair titled The Figure in the Carpet, had its première last week with...
Pearson's answer only raised a new question: Had a disloyalty charge against Diplomat Norman-even though it proved to be false-stood for ten years without getting a thorough check from External Affairs? And there was still the unchallenged statement of Orientalist Karl Witt-fogel, an ex-Communist, that he had known Norman as a Communist...
...Bedouin shepherd boy named Muhammad adh-Dhib ("The Wolf") first stumbled on them just ten years ago in a cave near Qumran (he had hoped to find buried treasure), the scrolls have stirred up perhaps the most vigorous debate in Christianity since Darwin. One faction, headed by French Orientalist André Dupont-Sommer (whose views were popularized in the U.S. by Amateur Scrollman Edmund Wilson), held that the Dead Sea Community more than Bethlehem might have been the cradle of Christianity. Philologist John Allegro of Britain's University of Manchester strongly implied that the scrolls put into question...
Probably the world's top Saudi Arabia authority is H. St. John Philby, the British Orientalist who served for years as King Ibn Saud's adviser. Recently in the London Sunday Times Philby delivered a harsh judgment on what he called "the Scandal of Saudi Arabia." A few roads, waterworks at Riyadh, Mecca and other places, some hospitals, a few public buildings, and the 350-mile railway that Arabian American Oil Co. built to connect Saud's capital with the Persian Gulf are about the only constructive achievements that he can find to list to the regime...
...Chicago's Fromm Music Foundation spends some $50,000 a year for commis sions, publishing, recording and performance of new music, including works by Orientalist Alan Hovhaness and Twelve-Tonist Ben Weber...