Word: orientalistes
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...Senior Orientalist on the Rome staff is Bob Christopher, who learned Japanese as a World War II intelligence officer. On previous assignments, Bureau Chief Bob Neville picked up some Hindustani and Chinese (to top off his childhood Oklahoma Cherokee vocabulary), learned Italian when he was World War II boss of Stars & Stripes's Mediterranean edition. Dean Brelis came to Rome equipped with Greek and fluent Kachin, a language which he learned in two years with Kachin tribesmen while operating behind the Japanese lines with an OSS detachment in Burma...
Currently, readers have their choice of two. One is an exuberant feature story of the 1949 Tibetan holiday of Lowell Thomas and Lowell Jr.; the other is a sharp-eyed account of a junket through Inner Mongolia, taken in 1945 by Orientalist Schuyler Cammann of the University of Pennsylvania...
After eight months of bickering with his home government, stooped, bearded Rustem Vambery resigned as Hungarian minister to the U.S. The son of a famed orientalist, green-eyed, 76-year-old Rustem Vambery is a scholar of international standing. As judge, politician and professor of criminology, he had opposed Bela Kun's Communists and Horthy's Fascists with equal vigor in Hungary. He had lectured in England, was on intimate terms with Britain's royal family. Since 1938 he had lived in the U.S., teaching at New York's New School for Social Research...
...Civilization. In another of his studies, Sykes writes of his friend and companion in Persia, Robert Byron, a gifted Orientalist. At Oxford in the mid-20s he was a leader in the "Oxford Aesthetes," a set accurately parodied in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. But his serious ambition was to understand the entire world into which he had been born. A fair and fearless little man, in the course of a dozen years he lived in every quarter of the world. His loyalty, at first given to his own time, was finally given to his civilization. He died...
Disturbing Echoes. In the early 1930s Roerich was at the pinnacle of worldly fame as painter and poet, Asiatic explorer, archeologist and mystic philosopher. In 1934, Admirer Henry Wallace, then Secretary of Agriculture, sent Roerich and his son George, an Orientalist, to the Gobi Desert, to collect drought-resisting grasses for the U.S. dust bowl. As the serene man who was used to being called "Master" moved through Asia, disturbing echoes reached the U.S. In Manchukuo the Japanese thought he was a Russian agent. The Russians thought he was a Japanese spy. The Chinese thought...