Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Orient troubles...
...Standard Oil Company will be at 2 University Hall on Wednesday, April 13. These men will be here for the purpose of interviewing students who are interested in obtaining positions in the Foreign Service of the Standard Oil Company. This work, which will be mainly in the Orient and Near East, allows a great variety of occupation ranging from office work and sales management, up to the organization and development of agencies...
Miss St. Denis continued talking about the schools she had already started throughout the country and the work they were doing in them. She and her husband, Ted Shawn, arrange all their own dances and she stated that her 18 minths in the Orient this winter had given them a wealth of material to work on. Returning to dancing and especially modern dancing, she said, "I feel that popular dancing as one sees it today is nothing mere than a complicated form of hugging. It will, however, probably change very soon and return to some more rhythmic form of movement...
...like his countryman, French Ambassador Paul Claudel (TiME, March 21). combines diplomacy and literature. Having been educated at L'Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris, having served as attache at the embassies in London, Rome, Madrid and the Orient, M. Morand quickly turned his energies to fiction and a study of the Negro. He is best known in the U. S. for his book, Open all Night. Thirty-nine, married, high-foreheaded, dark, hv tops the new generation of French and sensuous realists. "M. Claudel," said he, "is the greatest of Catholic poets...
Another lecture this morning of timely importance will be given by Dr. Hornbeck in Harvard 5 at 9 o'clock. His subject, "China: The Second Period of Conflict and Second Set of Treaties, 1844-1860", will be a study of the origin of the questions that now vex the Orient, and will constitute an invaluable commentary on the present situation. Other lectures of interest...