Word: orientalist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pearson's answer only raised a new question: Had a disloyalty charge against Diplomat Norman-even though it proved to be false-stood for ten years without getting a thorough check from External Affairs? And there was still the unchallenged statement of Orientalist Karl Witt-fogel, an ex-Communist, that he had known Norman as a Communist...
...Bedouin shepherd boy named Muhammad adh-Dhib ("The Wolf") first stumbled on them just ten years ago in a cave near Qumran (he had hoped to find buried treasure), the scrolls have stirred up perhaps the most vigorous debate in Christianity since Darwin. One faction, headed by French Orientalist André Dupont-Sommer (whose views were popularized in the U.S. by Amateur Scrollman Edmund Wilson), held that the Dead Sea Community more than Bethlehem might have been the cradle of Christianity. Philologist John Allegro of Britain's University of Manchester strongly implied that the scrolls put into question...
Probably the world's top Saudi Arabia authority is H. St. John Philby, the British Orientalist who served for years as King Ibn Saud's adviser. Recently in the London Sunday Times Philby delivered a harsh judgment on what he called "the Scandal of Saudi Arabia." A few roads, waterworks at Riyadh, Mecca and other places, some hospitals, a few public buildings, and the 350-mile railway that Arabian American Oil Co. built to connect Saud's capital with the Persian Gulf are about the only constructive achievements that he can find to list to the regime...
...Chicago's Fromm Music Foundation spends some $50,000 a year for commis sions, publishing, recording and performance of new music, including works by Orientalist Alan Hovhaness and Twelve-Tonist Ben Weber...
...Senior Orientalist on the Rome staff is Bob Christopher, who learned Japanese as a World War II intelligence officer. On previous assignments, Bureau Chief Bob Neville picked up some Hindustani and Chinese (to top off his childhood Oklahoma Cherokee vocabulary), learned Italian when he was World War II boss of Stars & Stripes's Mediterranean edition. Dean Brelis came to Rome equipped with Greek and fluent Kachin, a language which he learned in two years with Kachin tribesmen while operating behind the Japanese lines with an OSS detachment in Burma...