Word: orientalist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After eight months of bickering with his home government, stooped, bearded Rustem Vambery resigned as Hungarian minister to the U.S. The son of a famed orientalist, green-eyed, 76-year-old Rustem Vambery is a scholar of international standing. As judge, politician and professor of criminology, he had opposed Bela Kun's Communists and Horthy's Fascists with equal vigor in Hungary. He had lectured in England, was on intimate terms with Britain's royal family. Since 1938 he had lived in the U.S., teaching at New York's New School for Social Research...
...Civilization. In another of his studies, Sykes writes of his friend and companion in Persia, Robert Byron, a gifted Orientalist. At Oxford in the mid-20s he was a leader in the "Oxford Aesthetes," a set accurately parodied in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. But his serious ambition was to understand the entire world into which he had been born. A fair and fearless little man, in the course of a dozen years he lived in every quarter of the world. His loyalty, at first given to his own time, was finally given to his civilization. He died...
Disturbing Echoes. In the early 1930s Roerich was at the pinnacle of worldly fame as painter and poet, Asiatic explorer, archeologist and mystic philosopher. In 1934, Admirer Henry Wallace, then Secretary of Agriculture, sent Roerich and his son George, an Orientalist, to the Gobi Desert, to collect drought-resisting grasses for the U.S. dust bowl. As the serene man who was used to being called "Master" moved through Asia, disturbing echoes reached the U.S. In Manchukuo the Japanese thought he was a Russian agent. The Russians thought he was a Japanese spy. The Chinese thought...
Duhamel's colleagues put their cocked hats together, chose instead five Old Guardists-Baron Ernest Seillière, philosopher; Jean Tharaud, novelist; René Grousset, orientalist; Octave Aubry, historian; Robert d'Harcourt, specialist on Germany. Duhamel forthwith resigned. "But why?" chided his late associates. Duhamel's favorites, they said, did not want to be elected anyway...
...nearly dropped my spectacles," said 62-year-old Hugh Alexander Matier. Browsing through the Seattle Art Museum's far eastern collection, scholarly amateur Orientalist Matier stopped short before a piece of heavily carved jade, five inches square. Looking at its two imperial dragons, its authentic yellow tassels and its archaic characters, he was suddenly certain that he had found the long lost Imperial Seal of China's Hsien Feng...