Word: orientations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Balanchine's notion of the Orient is clearly more erotic than Mayuzumi's. The music is fragmented and ethereal, with no hint of sensuality in rhythm or dynamics. The dance, though, is something else again. The lovers stalk each other with expressionless hunger, and the postures they strike between movements are clear imitations of love. Balanchine did not intend to copy the traditional Bugaku, in which only men appear, but those who are misled by the borrowed title are likely to think that if such goings on are traditional in the Imperial Household, never mind the Ginza...
...while, they liked to listen to John A. T. Galvin around San Francisco. He often regaled cocktail parties with fascinating tales of his past. Such as the time he bought a shipload of calcium compound in the Orient and made huge profits selling it to natives as a remedy for diarrhea. Or the time he cornered the Malayan tin market. Or the time he interviewed Mao Tse-tung as an adventuring reporter in China during...
Harvard began to show its interest in the problem when Charles A. Coolidge '17, Acting President while President Pusey was touring the Orient, appointed a Faculty committee to examine the possibility of protecting the University from fallout. The committee began meeting in November, 1961, and issued a report of its recommendations last March. While the possibility of erecting blast shelters was rejected, a "modest" fallout program seemed worthwhile. John C. Colburn, an architect in the Buildings and Grounds Department, conducted a survey which seemed to indicate that shelter could be found in present basements for the University...
Apparently astrological and astronomical information spread with great speed among ancient and medieval societies, and "it soon became clear" to Pingree that the history of these two subjects would provide an excellent view of past relations between Occident and Orient. In order to gain a more thorough knowledge of astrology, Pingree spent a year in Poona studying informally under an actual Indian astrologer. His instructor whom he calls "a fairly intelligent guy," read the heavens before engaging in any major venture--hardly surprising when one remembers that nearly ninety percent of India's population is greatly influenced by horoscope beliefs...
...Britain 200 years ago, the thirst for the picturesque was almost as powerful as the thirst for port. Since Queen Elizabeth's day, there had been a lively interest in the "luxuriance of fancy" and "fayr-est workmanshippe" that assumed the Orient to be one vast curio shop. Toward the end of the 18th century, travelers began to bring back reports of more solid architectural wonders to dazzle the imaginations of stay-at-home Britons, and artists started to make sketching trips to China and India to satisfy this curiosity about all things Eastern. Most important of these...