Word: persia
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...pure detachment, that the saint's collar "shows the new interest ... in the vertical line and in the center-front." In another such painting, Job's boils are ruthlessly ignored in favor of Mrs. Job's hat ("the turban which spread so rapidly from Persia"). The glories of the Medicis and the Italian Popes simply show that "the bodice is gradually taking on importance"; the Renaissance reaches its peak with a striking innovation named "the handcouvre-chef"; and gothic cathedral frescoes offer the well-dressed lady "a dramatic cuff...
...Murad (above right), one of Frye's companions, applies squeeze paper to the ancient inscription in Sar Mashad, Persia. Back in his Kirkland House study, Frye (below right) begins the long job of translation...
Junior Fellow Richard N. Frye visited a lonely mountain in Persia this summer and came back with 800 words of ancient Pahlevi--one of the largest inscriptions ever found in the Near East...
Frye travelled through Southern Persia on muleback, going on hunch and making inquires all the way. Droughts and blinding dust storms slowed his passage...
...grandson of Brazil's last emperor, but gossip columnists could not agree on the bride. One said it would be beautiful Princess Fatima Toussoun of Egypt. Another report said that the hard-working prince, a Brazilian airline employee, would wed beautiful Fawzia, newly divorced by the Shah of Persia (TIME, Nov. 29). Neither the prince nor the lovely ladies could be found by inquiring reporters...