Word: orientating
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...week. In Cairo, Saeb Salam, who led Nasserite forces in the recent Lebanese rebellion, emerged from a long session with Nasser to say that the Communists were opposing Nasser in Iraq and that the Americans were helping Moscow by also opposing him. Asked Beirut's newspaper L'Orient: "Are we not truly on the eve of a reversal of alliance? There exists today a meeting of circumstances that push Egypt and America into each other's arms...
...trip before the mast to China, not a diet of bookdust out at Harvard, where a handful of ineffectuals were preparing for preaching or teaching. In order to see why his ritual was changed we must ask what this young Brahmin learned on his way to the Orient, and what he now learns at Harvard. In both cases we can discard the handful of useful facts and fancies acquired, since most college undergraduates, like most sailors, could absorb all these in a few weeks of hard work. We need a hypothesis more probable than that all America has suddenly realized...
...make up for such casting lapses, Agent Rivers and the producers he supplies try hard for authenticity in other respects. Before Suzie's costume designer, Dorothy Jeakins, ever laid out a hemline, she imported coolie suits from Hong Kong, even interviewed newsmen who had lived in the Orient and were "more or less familiar with brothels...
...take life and love easy"; they sing in choral groups with open throats, often using frankly sexual words and lyrics. As he moved to less remote areas, Lomax found increasing "frustration and melancholy," accompanied by a nasal, constricted-throat, high-pitched style of singing that comes originally from the Orient...
...Colorado and a social worker in California, then started to make his way around the world as a freelance writer. In 1939 he landed in Shanghai flat-broke and wangled a job with the United Press. Except for brief trips back to the U.S., he has been in the Orient ever since. He spent two years reporting the Sino-Japanese War, then moved to Bangkok shortly before Pearl Harbor. When Thailand meekly surrendered to the Japanese, Berrigan's Thai friends hustled him aboard the last train out of the country, and a sympathetic Thai captain cleared his papers...