Word: egyptianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctor attended the bruises on the Begum's neck, face and arms, and next day, still shaken by the "terrible experience," she flew off to her villa on the French Riviera, followed by flowers and apologies from Shepheard's. the Egyptian tourist office and the Saudis. Abdullah haltingly explained his mistake: "I thought she was a djinni. I thought she must have hidden my master somewhere. I was panicky." And from the heart he added: "The King would chop my neck if my master was injured...
John O'Hara is perhaps the U.S.'s chief social embalmer of manners and morals among the moneyed. His latest novel is a massive pyramid of prose raised over the mummified form of a minor Pharoah of finance named Alfred Eaton. As if by ancient Egyptian custom, Eaton's living tomb is stocked with the appurtenances of his caste and class: tennis rackets, the entrance requirements for Princeton in 1915, a Marmon runabout, a roster of exclusive clubs, a Navy lieutenant's stripes, partnership in a Wall Street banking house, two wives, two mistresses...
...white on blue tiles. ¶ Thirty 7½-ft.-high bas-reliefs from the frieze of the Pergamon Altar, a vast Hellenistic masterpiece commissioned by King Eumenes II in Asia Minor about 180 B.C. ¶ A roomful of Botticelli drawings illustrating the Divine Comedy. ¶ Hundreds of top-rank Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Roman and Chinese statues and ceramics. ¶ Cranach's Judith and Holofernes, Bosch's small Temptation of St. Anthony, Hals's Mulatto...
Iraq's Prime Minister Abdul Karim Kassem abruptly summoned his military attaché from Cairo for emergency consultations. The Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram accused the Israelis of mobilizing and massing troops on the Jordanian frontier, and Cairo's Al Gumhuria. which never seems to get its history straight, added: "Once more we'll fight, and again...
...EGYPTIAN OIL HUNT has been ended by U.S. combine of Continental Oil, Ohio Oil, Cities Service and Richfield Oil, who spent 4½ years, $30 million trying to find oil in western desert, found only dry holes...