Word: persianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HAJJI BABA" : IN THE NAME OF ALLAH THE COMPASSIONATE, THE MERCIFUL, O GREAT AND ALL-SEEING SPLENDID TIME, I WILL AGREE TO SEND YOU FORTHWITH A DANCING GIRL FROM ISPAHAN IF YOU CAN PROVE ONE SET USED IN "HAJJI BABA" WAS NOT DESIGNED AND BUILT ESPECIALLY FOR THIS LUSCIOUS PERSIAN CINEMASCOPE...
...Persian Rugs, Public Affairs
...structure also houses a magnificent main hall, checkered with marble flooring and dark chestnut-finished catalogs, the "tower room," a super-sized. House-library type room with ever stuffed chairs, paneled bookcases and alcoves, and Persian rugs. In the basement, too, there is the Public Affairs laboratory of the Great Issues course...
...just like the maid we had last year, and I thought maybe well, they have endowments for ice-cream and other things, I though that just maybe." He broke down again, and went back to brushing the rug with his hand. Here and there a tear splattered the mock-Persian design...
...baffling ease with which Toynbee glides over the millenniums, from the Austro-Hungarian monarchy to the U.S. Civil War to Carthage's "wooden curtain" of ships to Persian headgear to the Nestorian Uighur Turkish secretaries of the Mongols to the Tokugawa regime in Japan to the Argonauts to Kon-Tiki to the Prankish Lex Salica to U.S. television, gives the reader a heady sense of omniscience and omnipresence. Toynbee is at his most fascinating and most expert as a technician of civilization. When he ex plains a civilization's functioning, he evokes the kind of satisfaction that goes...