Word: orients
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...world was falling to pieces, few students at Harvard were bothered, or even noticed. Collegiate life went on as it always had in the past, except upperclassmen were now living in Lowell and Dunster Houses, and College life began to orient itself about the Houses...
...show next fall in London. Seattle Museum President-Director Richard E. Fuller, asked to pick two favorite paintings from his area for Stanford University's "Fresh Paint-1958" (now on show), chose a Horiuchi, and said: "Only a man versed in the beautiful calligraphic writing of the Orient on the one hand, and well grounded in the values and methods of Occidental 20th century painting on the other, would have conceived of such an expression...
When he got to the Orient, Yardley happily found nothing inscrutable about the old China poker hands. Around the table in the Chungking Hostel, he recalls, there were such worldly adversaries as Herr Neilson, the Generalissimo's antiaircraft adviser, "a good-natured writer from TIME Magazine" named Teddy White, and Mickey, a plump, cigar-smoking woman who turned out to be Writer Emily Hahn, in China to do the history of the three Soong sisters. The place was full of poker patsies, and Yardley put to profitable use the carefully calculated rules that make his book a primer...
...already in the kitty: $35 million). The broadcast was coast to coast in the U.S. on CBS, and-on the theory that the sun never sets on Harvard alumni-abroad on the armed forces radio network. Radio Luxembourg, the Voice of America, and various outlets in the Orient. But the nation's wealthiest educational institution was addressing an audience far larger than its own alumni. Manhattan Banker Alexander White, head Harvard fund raiser, stated the issue clearly: "Every American college is in serious financial trouble. Harvard is best off of all the colleges and Harvard is badly...
Even in stable Lebanon, the fever of Pan-Arabism that Nasser had loosed in the Middle East ran dangerous and strong. Said the newspaper L'Orient: "The country finds itself in a situation which literally calls for a war Cabinet-war for internal peace and order...