Word: persia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Research Fellow, Dr. Herbert F. Schurmann, at the Harvard-Yenching Institute, received the fourth local award to continue his studies on Turkey, Persia and Japan for the next two years...
...January 1950, he escaped to Persia once more, and this time made it stick. El Campesino lives in France now, but the French Communists do not cheer him as they used to. The word has got around: he is no longer a hero...
...born of Greek parents in Alexandropol, Russia in 1872. But Alexandropol was too confining. Young Gurdjieff ranged into Persia, Baluchistan, Afghanistan, Tibet. On these journeys, Gurdjieff sat at the feet of fakirs, dervishes, "holy men" and temple dancers, sopping up unwritten lore. By 1915 he was creating a minor stir in Moscow with an oriental ballet troupe and proclaiming himself master of a "system" of "esoteric knowledge...
...Iranian George Washington was probably born in 1879 (he fibs about his age). His mother was a princess of the Kajar dynasty then ruling Persia; his father was for 30 years Finance Minister of the country. Mohammed Mossadegh entered politics in 1906. An obstinate oppositionist, he was usually out of favor and several times exiled. In 1919, horrified by a colonial-style treaty between Britain and Persia, he hardened his policy into a simple Persia-for-the-Persians slogan. While the rest of the world went through Versailles, Manchuria, the Reichstag fire, Spain, Ethiopia and a World War, Mossadegh kept...
...hero is a Finnish boy named Michael who sails aboard a pilgrim ship for Palestine, only to be lugged off to the African slave markets by Moslem pirates. Thenceforward, he ricochets about the Ottoman Empire-from the fall of Algiers to the siege of Vienna to the campaigns in Persia-like some 16th Century Lanny Budd with a bath towel wound around his head. The reader is carried along with Michael's story by a trick of suspense that is original, if nothing else: When, where & how will the hero have to submit to the Mohammedan rite of circumcision...