Word: arabization
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...these golden days of Arab power, Moslems were the world's intellectual elite-the perfectors of algebra (from the Arabic al-jabr: binding together), the founders of analytical geometry and of plane and spherical trigonometry, pioneers in astronomy (through their need to locate Mecca precisely). As scholars flocked in from all over the world-among them a young Frenchman who later became Pope Sylvester II (999-1003)-Fez flourished as the "Baghdad of the West...
...work, musical settings to four long passages from the books of Matthew and Luke in Latin, evoked several strikingly different moods: the first and fourth motets were highly dramatic and rhythmically complicated; the second had the lyric simplicity of folk song, while the third was reminiscent of an Arab mourning song. They displayed, concluded Die Welt, an entirely "new creative impulse...
Days of Glory. After college Bobby drifted. As a correspondent for the Boston Post, he covered the Arab-Israeli war and the Berlin airlift. He won his law degree at the University of Virginia, entered Government service as a junior attorney for the Justice Department, where one of his first cases was the Owen Lattimore investigation. In 1950 he married Ethel Skakel, a Greenwich, Conn, girl he had met on a college ski trip (who has turned into a first-rate political campaigner). In 1952 Bobby joined the legal staff of Joe McCarthy's Senate Investigations Subcommittee. A diligent...
...recent and futile effort of five leading neutrals--India, Indonesia, Ghana, the United Arab Republic, and Yugoslavia--to force a meeting between President Eisenhower and Premier Khrushchev has led to suggestions that the neutralists may form a bloc strong enough to wrangle with the 25-nation Western block and the 10-nation Communist bloc. However, University professors considered this unlikely because of the diverse interests of the large group of neutrals...
...show any practiced moderation in diplomatic maneuver, and most balk at accepting leadership from any self-appointed tutor. Tito dreams of leading the whole neutralist world, but is suspect to Africans and Asians as both a white man and a Communist. Nasser, who cannot even bring the entire Arab world under his wing, flirts with the notion of African leadership-which Ghana's Nkrumah regards as his special province. Even India's Nehru, the senior neutralist of all, is now regarded by the newly self-confident Africans as a purely Asian figure with no more competence in African...