Word: turbaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first of many installation ceremonies that will take him on a year's traveling in Africa, the Mideast and southern Asia. The sun blazed down, and after some 20,000 faithful chanted "Allah Akbar," the young Aga received a signet ring, a robe of many colors, a golden turban, the 49-disked gold chain of Omnipotent Priest and a long curved sword of justice. The pageantry of installation, the Aga's initial assumption of temporal and spiritual leadership over some 20 million widely scattered Ismailis, seemed at times more like a U.S. college May fete than a religious...
Next day when Diem's C-47 touched down at Bangkok's spick-and-span military airport, the President disembarked to review the waiting honor guard, clad instead in his national Vietnamese dress: blue silk mandarin gown and black Tonkinese turban. The mandarin gown reflected more than a mere impulsive presidential whim: it symbolized a complicated and many-faceted change that has come about in President Diem's political thinking in recent months...
Bandwagons in Mayfair. Unity, if it comes at all, will have to be achieved by agreement among the colorful chief delegates: tall, aristocratic Alhaji Ahmadu, the Islamic and potent Sardauna of Sokoto, an Arabian Nights figure in a billowing green turban and red velvet robe, whose Moslem Hausas consider the pagans of the South no better than savages; boyish, chubby-faced Yoruba Chieftain Obafemi Awolowo, one of the shrewdest political minds in Africa and an ardent champion of regional self-government for his own people; scholarly and ambitious Dr. Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe, the rich and demagogic U.S.-educated favorite...
...minute sessions with Secretary of State Dulles, and a one-hour session, along with Dulles, with Eisenhower at the White House. Ike and Diem got another chance to talk at a formal dinner at the Viet Nam embassy, where Host Diem, dressed in traditional Vietnamese costume-black turban, white trousers, a purple-and-black knee-length coat-also had a chat with another Ike visitor, Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery...
...entranced through a whole day before Rembrandt's The Bridal Couple. Even Picasso, that great imitator, once paid Rembrandt the supreme compliment of confessing one failure. Beginning an etching, he says, "I started to doodle. It became a Rembrandt. I even made another one right away, with his turban, his furs, his eye-you know what I mean, his elephant's eye. I'm still working on this plate to get his blacks. You don't get them right away...