Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vatan was one of the few journals in Turkey which strongly supported the Allied cause. Again it was throttled for long periods for its attacks on Government policies-and once for publishing a still photograph from Charles Chaplin's The Great Dictator, which had been banned by the Turkish Government. Ahmed Emin long fought Turkey's single-party system. In the past year a weak anti-Government party has been established, but Ahmed Emin refuses to become its candidate-it might interfere with his independence...
Rather than let his swimmers roast off New Year's Eve in a Turkish bath, Hal Ulen, Varsity swimming coach, has made arrangements to have the facilities of the Indoor Athletic Building available for them during the last three, or possibly four, days of the Christmas recess...
Chronically poverty-stricken Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wanted to be married, decided to compose a light little Singspiel to pay the bills, titled it Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio). To make it popular, he set it in a harem. He filled it with "Turkish style" music and costumes which were fashionable in 18th Century Europe, gave the heroine his future wife's name Constanze. After the Vienna premiere in 1782, Emperor Joseph II said: "Too fine for our ears, my dear Mozart-and much too many notes." Despite the imperial reservation, Die Entf...
...Librettist Gottlieb Stephanie, who borrowed it from a comedy by Dramatist Christoph Bretzner, who probably borrowed it from an English comic opera called The Captive) tells of an English cavalier and his manservant who try to liberate the cavalier's lady love and her maid from a Turkish pasha's harem...
...overlooking the teeming beach was jammed with Sabbath idlers sipping blood-red gazoz, Tel Aviv's favorite syrup-and-soda drink. One youth sat quietly alone, smoking cigarets and drinking thick Turkish coffee. Two men approached his table, murmured "Shalom" (Peace), the traditional Jewish greeting. "Shalom," the youth replied. The two sat down...