Word: persia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know, Persia is my business-I might say my life-which means that I read the account [of Iran and the Shah] in TIME with probably as much interest as anybody. I am writing immediately to tell you that it was a remarkable job, and it is a subject on which I am not easily pleased, having growled, as you know, about previous accounts. But this is comprehensive, realistic, just; it is penetrating and sympathetic also: a remarkable performance-far and away the best I have seen about contemporary Iran. Congratulations to all concerned...
Next morning he whacked out just as resoundingly at the city that lets such things happen. "I have traveled alone, unarmed, all through the Caucasus, Turkey, Russian Turkistan, Persia, occasionally among primitive tribes supposed to be hostile to white men," said Central Asian Language Specialist Menges. "I have also gone among bandits in such places and never been molested. But here in a so-called civilized city, in the evening on a lighted street near a large university, I am attacked by jungle beasts. I do not think such things should be tolerated...
...nation changed its name officially in 1935 from Persia to Iran, a variation of the word Aryan, one of its principal peoples. This was done in part to point up the ethnic contrast with its Semitic neighbors. Though Moslem, Iran is not Arab, a fact that has saved it from the Nasser-sponsored troubles that have rocked the rest of the Middle East. -Far more beautiful: the ancient tiled mosque city of Isfahan to the south, which in the 16th century reign of Shah Abbas was a greater city than Elizabethan London...
...Carita, easily equaled his first two wives in comely poise. Soon after their marriage, Farah Diba announced that a child was on the way. On the assumption that the baby will be the long-awaited heir, the Shah reportedly has already decided to name him Cyrus-after ancient Persia's Cyrus the Great. The baby is due in late October, and the Shah plans gala celebrations early next year for the 2,500th anniversary of Cyrus' empire. which once stretched from the Indus to the shores of Greece...
Thus, according to Author Harold Lamb in his ninth excursion into what he calls "biographical narrative." did Cyrus the Great of. Persia find a way to conquer Babylon while disguised as a servant. No one can be sure how much of the story is true, for as Lamb himself says, "all the verified historical data about Cyrus could be published in no more than six pages." Lack of evidence has never bothered Lamb before: by combining the sparse clues available with a high sense of drama and a thorough knowledge of the ancient world, he has become master...