Word: persianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...followers he purchased an estate in Somerset, named it Agapemone (Abode of Love), and moved in with about 60 "brothers" and "sisters." The Abode featured a church with stained-glass windows, but which differed from most churches in its other furnishings, e.g., there was a billiard table, a Persian carpet and "a red sofa near a bright fire...
...read with interest your March 26 article "Big Brother." The people of the Arab world, from the Persian Gulf to the Atlantic Ocean, are entitled to their freedom and liberty. To me, what Nasser is trying to achieve now is something more or less similar to your Monroe Doctrine. I believe that he should be credited rather than criticized for his stand...
Alexander the Great (Robert Rossen; United Artists). As writer-producer-director, Robert Rossen spent not much less time (four years) and probably more money ($4,000,000) on the production of this picture than Alexander did on the entire conquest of the Persian Empire, and there can be no doubt that, in some ways, his effect is even more shattering than the martial Macedonian's. The picture presents two hours and 25 minutes of continuously colossal spectacle in CinemaScope, Technicolor and stereophonic sound. There are 6,000 people in the cast and 1,000 horses. Several regiments...
Gulf's operation at Kuwait on the Persian Gulf makes it No. 2 (after Jersey Standard) among U.S. oil companies in world production. Company chiefs evidently concluded that the 1952 tin nationalization was a political necessity, and that Paz Estenssoro is now able to get on realistically with the development of the country. The exploration area granted to Gulf is-ironically enough-part of Jersey Standard's old concession...
...friend. Gauguin wrote: "I believe it is one of my best things; quite incomprehensible, of course, so abstract is it. It looks at first like the head of a bandit . . . the eyes, mouth and nose are like flowers in a Persian carpet, thus personifying also the symbolical side. The color has nothing whatever to do with nature . . . Through all the reds and purples run streaks of flame as though a furnace were blazing before one's eyes, seat of all the painter's mental struggles. And all this on a background of chrome yellow with childish little bouquets...