Word: polyglot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...polyglot world of U.S. music, Russian singers have always been in short supply. It is nearly a quarter-century since Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin sang his last Manhattan recital. Last week the first Soviet singer to appear in the U.S. since World War II arrived in Manhattan to launch a six-week cross-country tour. Her name: Zara Doloukhanova...
Lebanon, inhabited by members of ten Christian sects and three kinds of Moslems, is a living museum recalling virtually all the peoples that have ever dominated the Near East. When they won independence from France in 1946, the polyglot, polyracial Lebanese established a prosperous state whose stability depended on meticulous division of political offices among the major religious groups...
...richest (per-capita yearly income: $434), bustles with its prosperous oil industry. It stages the hemisphere's most tireless pre-Lenten carnival dance, in which the performer leans over backwards and wriggles under a bar nine inches off the floor. Racially, it is a polyglot of Negro. East Indian, Portuguese and Chinese. ¶ Barbados grows seven-eighths of a ton of sugar a year for each of its 230,500 inhabitants (called Bajans). who plant every inch of its white-coral soil...
...waves and winds, learned about history's great sea battles. He came to know the tales of the great seaborne adventurers, from Bjarni Herjulfson. reputed to be the first Viking to see America, to Boston Harry Adams, the ugly Ohio farm boy who became a legend among the polyglot pearlers of Thursday Island...
...interfering with Israeli vessels in the Gulf of Aqaba and thereby inviting another encounter with the Israeli army. Israel, at present, does not recognize the 1949 armistice agreement with Egypt, and still refuses to permit UNEF troops on its side of the border. But Israeli kibbutzim fraternize with the polyglot army, and Israel's government station broadcasts regularly in Swedish, Portuguese and Spanish for the benefit of UNEF troops. Nobody says so out loud, but everyone is content to have UNEF stay where it is. Last November the U.N. Assembly voted to maintain UNEF for another year...