Word: orientation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Religious activity is not confined solely to the monastery. Several priests have travelled far into the Orient to give medical and spiritual help. Father Morse, for instance, served in China until he was forced to leave to two times; once by the Japanese, and again by the Chinese Communists. At present, he lives on the Indian-Tibet border, offering his life and knowledge to the people in that area. In Japan, the three Japanese fathers took, in refugees during the last war and helped to provide food and clothing to the homeless. Bishop Spence Burton '03 is serving in Nassau...
...department, and got the publisher to subsidize him for three years. Greene's next two novels (The Name of Action, Rumour at Nightfall) must have made his publishers think twice about their investment. Both were murkily intense, heavily plotted melodramas that Greene has since tried hard to forget. Orient Express (1932) made the publishers feel better. A tightly written suspense story, it made Greene a popular writer. Hollywood turned it into a movie...
...three men agreed that the recent San Francisco peace treaty is a sign of political maturity in this country and success in our foreign relations. They agreed on the importance of a strong and democratic Japan as "the one great hope to peace in the Orient...
...devoted his time to planning courses and finding teachers. By last week, after four years of preparation, his nonprofit American Academy of Asian Studies was ready to open-the first graduate school in the U.S. devoted solely to the study of the Orient...
...academy has no real quarters: it is crammed into one floor of the Gainsborough Building at 221 Sansome St. But soon, Gainsborough hopes, it will have a new building of its own, and will be sending out its M.A.s and Ph.D.s to work all over the Orient...