Word: persianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fame & Fortune. Now 33, Mathieu has already made his fame in Europe, sells everything he paints. Slim, dapper, cultivated, he occupies a town house furnished with fine Gothic furniture and Persian carpets, in the fashionable La Muette section of Paris. He whips out small paintings in as little as ten minutes, and even his huge pictures require no more than a couple of hours to paint. This, as Mathieu is frank to point out, leaves him "lots of time for other activi ties . . . I'm keenly interested in modern music, philosophy, mathematics, poetry, literature...
...Greek navy, is building the largest cargo ship ever built in the U.S., the largest tanker in the world [TIME, Feb. 22]. Admiral Nearchus (325 B.C.), explorer, built ships and sailed from the mouth of the Indus across the Arabian Sea and up to the head of the Persian Gulf. He and his crew reported to their commander in chief Alexander the Great in Iran, after a two-year voyage of tremendous hardship and valor. Could be ... a case of long-distance heredity...
...Police Commissioner of New York City to be named to the Board of Overseers. Even then, his interest could not be called intense. He once described his first meeting to a friend, "I felt like a bull dog who had strayed into a symposium of perfectly clean, white Persian cats...
...Howard last week and awoke long enough to take in the act of Shiva and Her Snake, described in Saturday's CRIMSON. I feel compelled to point out one inaccuracy: your writer said that the orchestra accompanied Shiva's act with "something Arabian," whereas it was actually Persian music. A petty correction? Yes. But in the present aura of international discord, it ill behooves us to lay ourselves open in any way to charges of anti-Persianism...
...matter of fact, the Persian music used there was composed by an Englishman. But since the Persians can claim so little in the cultural output known to most Westerners, we ought not to grudge them title to this music any more than the English grudge the Edward Fitzgerald (or we begrudge the English their claim to Handel--for poor old England has produced so few great composers to swell her national pride...