Word: orientating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Rear Admiral Bristol said, reassuringly, at Constantinople, as he took the Simplon Orient Express for Paris: "Turkey has now become a robust nation with no fear of her most promising future...
...wears no special uniform but is visibly "a confident citizen of two worlds." He is about 50, ordained only after having shown special qualifications for the spiritual life. His training has consisted in study of Christ's life and two or three years in the Orient to become familiar with mysticism at its source. He comes not to do, or say anything, primarily. He comes "to BE something...
EAST INDIA AND COMPANY?Paul Morand?A. & C.Boni ($2.50). Perhaps when a Parisian sophisticate visits the Orient he is able to discover there an array of feminine beauty equal to that discovered in Paris, and an aroma of sophistication as pungently delicate as that with which he perfumes his handkerchiefs and his prose. If this is true, the short stories in this book are more than infinitely trivial, infinitely graceful potboilers...
...proponents of the higher criticism some sort of answer can be given, verging, indeed, upon that oddity of entities, truth. These weary, worried participants in the Memorial Hall Grand Guignol have at least the satisfaction of knowing that they have learned how intelligently and adequately to read, how to orient facts, how to present those facts. And, since there are facts and facts, a truism appreciated by the departments, they have discovered that no evil can befall him who chooses among them in preparing and answering his divisional examinations. Hence, this catharsis from the pity and fear inspired by divisionals...
...Court, unmoved, proceeded with the taking of testimony tending to prove that Tito Zaniboni had seven accomplices, one of them Gen eral Luigi Capello, and all subsidized by the Grand Orient Lodge of Italian Freemasonry, which Il Duce regards as the most pernicious force opposing Fascismo...