Word: veils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lifting the Veil Sir: I thoroughly enjoyed your Nov. 11 article on the emancipation of Moslem women, especially since I was an instructor at Robert College in Istanbul at the time (about the beginning of Ataturk's idea to "westernize" his country) when the Turkish men were forced to throw away their fezzes and the young Turkish girls eagerly discarded their veils. The late Dr. Caleb Gates, president of the college and a very religious man, was a good friend of a wealthy pasha who had four wives. He asked the pasha why it was necessary to have four...
...rich, who is poor. They allow us to distinguish between the sacred and the profane." At the same time, clothes also have the function of concealment. "There are certain acts, most honest in themselves because carried out by divine arrangement, which need nevertheless to be protected by a veil of shadow and hidden by reserved silence, so as to ensure respect for their great...
...second wife, irate women stoned his car. Throughout the country, women are stepping out into a bright new world of universities and industry, of monthly paychecks and partnership in the home, of planned parenthood and Max Factor makeup. In the red-light districts of some larger cities the veil, instead of being the hallmark of respectability, is now worn chiefly by harlots as protective coloration...
...sipping soft drinks clad in the latest New York or Paris fashions. The men go off to the salamlik to dine, exchange stories and fret about the price of oil. When the party is over, a servant notifies a woman guest that her husband is ready. She dons her veil and shroud, thanks her hostess and departs without ever seeing her host. But next day she may slip out in her car, doff her aba as soon as she is beyond sight of the town and take the wheel herself for a drive to the beach...
Four Women, Two Veils. In the office of Radio Morocco, the country's government-run station, four young Moslem women sat at their desks one day last week. All wore skirts, high heels and jangly jewelry. When the office closed at 6:30 p.m., two of them powdered their noses and left for home without more ado. But the two others swathed themselves dutifully in djellabah and veil; they were bound for families which did not object to their leaving the house, but demanded adherence at home to the customs of old. Says Princess Aisha: "The veil itself...