Word: riza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago Iran's touchy Riza Shah Palevi, King of Kings, broke off (for a month) Iran's diplomatic relations with France, because a French humorous weekly had punned "chat" (cat) with Shah. Last week, Paris papers reviewing the annual cat show did it again. So did the Shah...
...Often there are completely irrelevant skirmishes. John Gunther knew at once that Riza Pahlevi was Shah of Iran. Fadiman: "Are you shah?" Gunther: "Sultanly." Another time, Fadiman asked what four prominent women have the first names Marina, Elzire, Hepzibah, Farida. Marcus Duffield (day news editor of the New York Herald Tribune): "The name Elzire is familiar. ... As a matter of fact, I used to play Indians with her.'' Fadiman: "Well, you must have had a lot of fun. Elzire is Mrs. Dionne...
...first woman officer of the Turkish Flying Corps, and a pioneer in Kamâl Atatürk's movement to open all professions, even the army, to the tough, modern Turkish woman. She volunteered for service during the uprising, plunked a bomb on the house of Seyyid Riza, a rebel leader, killed him and so helped mightily to crush the rebellion. For her trouble the Turkish Government awarded her Turkey's highest aviation honor, a medal set with brilliants...
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Another insight into Persian painting may be gained from a portrait signed by the artist Aga Riza. This is dated about two and a half centuries later, from the end of the sixteenth century. Now there is no epic tale but a contemporary person, not an anonymous craftsman but a celebrated artist. Now it is studied delicacy of drawing, conscious rhythm of inner and outer line, but there is still the Persian abstraction. The body is without weight, a mere pattern of pleasing shapes of color, the pose is without stability...