Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Torrential rains turned Baghdad's ancient streets into a morass of mud, splashed monotonously on the broad, glossy leaves of the eucalyptus trees that screen the chocolate-colored walls of Al Zuhour palace from public view. Al Zu-hour palace is the birthplace of Iraq's 22-year-old Hashemite King Feisal, whose line has waged a blood feud intermittently for over half a century with the usurping Sauds of Arabia. But last week, for seven busy and significant days, the palace served as a royal guest house for King Saud of Saudi Arabia...
...thirty-two straight Plays presented, sixteen were major productions, fourteen were Theatre Work-shop productions (exactly half of which were given over to original student scripts), and two were concert readings under the aegis of the Workshop. The plays drew from many categories: ancient Greek, medieval morality, Shakespearean and other Elizabethan drama, eighteenth-century comedy, nineteenth-century Russian and modern European and American drama. The other thirteen items were musical, comprising eighteenth-and nineteenth-century comedy and modern American comedy and tragedy...
Bargain Rates. Resurgent West Germany will try to outdo her neighbors in merrymaking and culture. All summer, folk tales will come to life in ancient German castles, monasteries and town markets; the Pied Piper will tootle through the streets of Hamelin, and the Hans Sachs dramas will run in the medieval, walled town of Rothenberg-on-Tauber. In Berlin, where Americans can walk through the Iron Curtain to the shattered East sector, some of the world's top architects have rebuilt a war-gutted neighborhood in the West sector for the city's International Building Exhibition, which runs...
...would be offensive to pork-abhorring Mohammedans. The troops in India were a fantastically mixed lot-and Indians do not mix well. There were not only the company troops but regiments in the service of Queen Victoria, and in the ranks discipline was snarled up in India's ancient caste system, e.g., a low-caste sergeant would kiss the feet of a Brahman private...
Within the blood-colored walls of that fantastic city, like a queen bee in the great swarming hive of India, sat the ancient Mohammedan King of Delhi, a company pensioner, who suddenly found himself the unwilling leader of what today might be called a national war of liberation. As the mutineers in their elaborate British uniforms streamed into his city, all the pious old gentleman could do was to ask them not to loot too much (most of the British in Delhi were massacred in the first few days succeeding the mutiny) and consult the entrails of a goat...