Word: orients
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...News to millions of cinemaddicts is the fact that the political balance of Japan, hence the peace of the Orient, centres on 85-year-old Prince Kimmochi Saionji, Last of the Genro. It is this Elder Statesman who most often makes up the imperial mind of the Son of Heaven. Yet this potent old Japanese has been completely missed by U. S. newsreels. Therefore to the tiny fishing village of Okitsu went the newscameras of The March of Time, with the result that shots of Prince Saionji, guarded night & day by 40 soldiers, sitting on his flower-bordered porch reading...
Early in January Stokowski will take his wife (spectacular Johnson & Johnson heiress) and his two daughters on a trip to the Orient where he intends to study Japanese and Chinese music. But few believed last week that he had definitely retired from the U. S. musical scene. Stokowski at 52 is as ambitious and hard-working as he was in his twenties when he played the organ in St. Bartholomew's Church in Manhattan, saved his money so that he could hire orchestras abroad and start building up his fame as a conductor...
...defense program of the Soviets in Eastern Siberia, industrial projects, strategic railway, settlement of veteran soldiers on the frontier, and the possible formation of a Turkey-Persia bloc on the Southern pathway to the Orient formed two other salients which Professor Hopper particularly stressed in his talk...
...further proof, moreover, that Harvard Yard is the place to go to get in live touch with the Orient, a late report of the Institute indicates that it is now receiving 171 different Chinese current periodicals with 37 from Japan; which places it, in this respect, far in advance of any other American library. Now in possession of 86,651 volumes in the former language and 6,994 in the latter, the Library will continue its collecting of cultural books this year, principally in an effort to procure valuable Chinese ts'ung shu, collections of individual works, and especially those...
...several institutions in China and allots to Harvard University such sums as the Trustees deem advisable for the development of teaching and research in the language, literature, history, and art of China and Japan. The Institute also provides some fellowships for Chinese and Occidental students for story in the Orient or at Harvard...