Word: orientator
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soon after World War II, when the image of Russia as America's ally in arms still loomed large and benevolent, one crisp voice from the Orient peppered Washington with warning after angry warning about Communist intentions. It was the voice of Dr. Syngman Rhee, who in 1948, at the age of 73, had finally realized his dream of six decades by becoming the first freely elected President of a democratic republic in Korea. To the consternation of Washington officials, the doughty little Korean wanted from the start to ram a hard fist in the face of the Communists...
...funneled $2.7 billion in military aid to Chiang's government in Taipei, plus some $1.5 billion in economic assistance. A land-reform program has more than doubled farm productivity, while more and more of the nation's resources have been harnessed to industry. Formosa today boasts the Orient's second highest standard of living (after Japan), though three-fourths of its national budget goes for defense. Since 1960, more than $42 million in foreign investment has been pumped into the island, whose skilled, low-wage labor force has attracted several dozen U.S. companies from Westinghouse to Winchester...
Some officials suggest that Japan may use her unique understanding of both Oriental and Occidental temperaments to mediate between East and West. In the future, the Japanese diplomatic corps may be used as a "bridge" for communication as well as support. Japan stands as a link between East and West in a dual sense-first, between communist and free countries and, second, between Occident and Orient. For the Japanese, China and its people are neighbors with whom historical, ethnic and cultural ties have existed for more than ten centuries. Drawing on this historical background and her growing economic power, Japan...
...after losing the key to her bedroom in a dice game. At 18, she was the mistress of a Russian prince and two years later made it to Paris, where she became a Spanish dancer in a four-star restaurant in the Palais Royal. Sighed one admirer: "All the Orient was in her hips...
...drain, Brown is convinced, but also prove a magnet in its own right. Says he: "We cannot rival the Metropolitan in the Met's terms now. No one is taking whole carloads of treasures out of Egypt any more. But our museum can look to the Orient and to Latin American art easier and quicker just because of geography." He intends building on the present splendors to produce a top-grade total museum. "Doing it becomes an obligation," says he. "The new museum will become what all truly great museums are: an instrument with which a community...