Word: djinn
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Attia Hassanein, 38, of Cairo, looked bad and felt worse last week. He had medicine from doctors, but it did him no good, and he was not surprised. For it was obvious to Attia, his wife and three children that the djinn had him again...
...Djinn populated the Arabic world long before the coming of the Prophet, and in fact Mohammed recognized their existence in the Koran. Allah created them of smokeless flame, whereas he made man and angels of clay and light; they...
Among readers who fancy vampires, succubi, werewolves and other monsters, a young (35) Californian named Ray Bradbury is regarded as the arrived monster-monger, fit replacement for August Derleth, eldritch statesman of the well-informed witchlover. Author Bradbury may owe even more to John Collier, another veteran djinn-and-bitters addict. Like Mary Wollstonecraft (Frankenstein) Shelley and Bram (Dracula) Stoker, these writers appeal to the middle or relatively uncorrugated brow, rather than the highbrow, who finds more than enough to bite his nails over in the Age of Anxiety without faking up a little more. The highbrow, in fact, whose...
...accorded recognition and eventual acceptance into the U.N. Assembly. This week, Russia announced guarded acceptance of a cease-fire but stated its own opening terms: the U.N. must order all U.S. forces out of the Formosa area. It was a familiar Communist gambit, and it conjured up a familiar djinn: India's Jawaharlal Nehru. Arriving in London for this week's Commonwealth conference, Nehru briskly proposed himself as mediator...
Like a fiery djinn, the hydrogen bomb hung over the House of Commons, shaping every speech, tingeing every mind. Reporting on his "diplomatic weekend" in Washington, Churchill admitted that the H-bomb had been the reason for it. He had been astonished and shocked at its devastating power. He had learned about it only last February from a speech by a U.S. Congressman...