Word: persianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fabric is also a keynote this year. The ruling thought is to make wood look like cloth, cloth look like fur, and fur look like fabric. Dacron has coped the crown from rayon, nylon, et al. Poodle cloth is indistinguishable from persian lamb, and the glittering sheen of furs resembles satin more than sable...
Born in Berlin of Egyptian parents (35 years ago, by ungallant guess), Sadika went to Cairo after war broke out, and set up a perfume shop. Says she: "I've liked selling ever since." In the social whirl of Cairo, Sadika met Mouhsine Garagozlou,handsome young Persian diplomat. Sadika married Mouhsine and moved on to the gayer life of the Persian court. But she still pined to go back into business...
...produced. After college he got most of his exercise on the dance floor. With friends, he hired a hall and an orchestra for $1.50 weekly dances in Manhattan (known as Dr. Spock's Dancing Academy or the Don't Tread on Me Club). Once, at the stylish Persian Room, he danced so well with his attractive wife that everyone else edged off the floor to watch them...
...Down the Persian Gulf, past the sandy, heat-shimmering wastes of southern Arabia, a grubby tanker plowed. It was tiny (632 tons) and slow (7.5 knots), but last week the Rose Mary was the most celebrated oil tanker in the world...
...Cairo, taxi drivers stopped their cabs to join the kneeling crowds outside the packed mosques. At Dhahran on the Persian Gulf, the Arabian-American Oil Co. eased its daily work schedules for its fasting, prayerful employees. The Arab cafes of Algiers were empty. In Beirut and Karachi, Western-educated university students put aside their examination papers to meditate on the Koran. Five times a day, from the holy shrines of Mecca to the blackened bamboo mosques of the southern Philippines, muezzins spoke the Arabic words calling the faithful to prayer in a special time of self-denial and self-examination...