Word: egyptianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purveyor of history as it should have been -with color, wide screen and brigades of extras-helped out New York City on a problem of medium-high learning. Donated by DeMille: four plaques, to be placed at the foot of Cleopatra's Needle, the 3,500-year-old Egyptian obelisk in Central Park, with a translation of the monument's hieroglyphics. For the occasion, DeMille recalled his urchin days in the wilds of the big city: "As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures. I saw my first lion and tiger...
Bonn also turned down the Egyptian demand to buy more Egyptian cotton; West Germany's textile factories still seem to get as much Egyptian cotton as they need by buying at cut-rate prices from the Soviet-bloc countries, which got the cotton from Egypt in payment for Red arms to Nasser...
...domination. They believe in non-alignment." He had need of a little help, as well as loud hurrahs, from the Russians. His arms debts (including those he inherited by absorbing Syria) were strapping him: not only is his cotton crop mortgaged to Russia for years, but Russia is dumping Egyptian cotton elsewhere at lower prices, thus debasing its value...
Just before Nasser left for Russia, the West had given him a chance to escape any further Russian clutches. After Nasser settled the expropriated Suez Canal Co.'s claims for $81 million (TIME, May 5), Washington freed $26 million in frozen Egyptian assets, and U.S. Ambassador Raymond Hare told Nasser that the U.S. was preparing generally for a return to "normal'' relations with Cairo, was ready to resume CARE surplus food shipments, student exchanges and rural improvement aid, and to end restrictions on delivering such industrial items as ball bearings, lubricating oils and spare parts...
...Egypt and centered in Moses. With the Pharaoh persecuting the Jews, a Moses already estranged from the palace of his upbringing turns wholly to the people of his birth. In the conflict, Pharaoh's young son Rameses sympathizes with the oppressed: but when the firstborn in every Egyptian family is struck down, the humane royal firstborn perishes with the rest...