Word: egyptianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play concerns the return of Moses to Egypt not in his old role of Egyptian prince and general but in his now passionately held role or Jew. Although staging great characters--Shaw's Caesar--can be an opportunity to demonstrate what made them great, Fry does not achieve this. Yet Fry does make Moses a magnetic leader, a man of inspiration, a man whose motives and courses of action, often at odds with practicality or common sense, are hard for others--and sometimes Moses himself--to understand. Despite all this, the audience develops as much sympathy for Fry's Pharaoh...
...Soviets had just completed an extensive series of tests. In Japan, despite a national obsession with the dangers of fallout, only 40 people bothered to appear when the left-wing Students' Federation (220,000 members) called for a demonstration in front of the U.S. embassy. Even the Egyptian press received the Soviet announcement coolly. Said Cairo's Al Akhbar: "It would appear that the U.S. and British governments look upon the Soviet proposals as a mere means for obtaining people's applause...
...Surinach, was a kind of lovelorn-columnist's tour of Eden, with Adam, Eve, Adams's legendary wife Lilith and a hor mone-happy stranger as the disturbed protagonists. In style it was light but pricked with wryly ironic wit. Clytemnestra, with a grindingly dissonant score by Egyptian Composer Halim El-Dabh, was a more impressive work and far more complex. Both its power and its tortuous complexities derived from Choreographer Graham's technique of unfolding the story as a memory of past events sounding shrilly in the echo chamber of Clytemnestra's mind. In four...
Rumor getting serious attention currently in the Middle East: that Gamal Abdel Nasser, driving for his Arab union, will next arrange for the Egyptian-run Gaza Strip to announce its independence as a nation. The strip's 300.000 Palestinians, mostly refugees from Israeli-held territory, would then vote themselves into his United Arab Republic. Such a "state" might be expected to attract the disruptive loyalty of the more than 500,000 other Palestinian refugees living in Jordan. Already the newly created Gaza local government council calls itself the Palestine Legislative Assembly, and the map of "Arab Palestine" behind...
From Egypt to Sinai. Fast agrees with Freud and others that Moses' monotheism is traceable to the great Egyptian monarch, AkhenAton (also known as Ikhnaton), who forswore all gods save the Sun-God Aton. But where Freud guessed that Moses was an Egyptian by birth. Novelist Fast makes him an Egyptian merely by adoption and education. As Fast tells it, fear of the old gods and their priests caused AkhenAton's successors to denounce Aton worship, but not before the idea of monotheism had taken root in some Egyptian minds. In Fast's account, every priest...