Word: egyptianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Make Up for the Past. Pictured on every poster and saluted by every speaker, Nasser was plainly still enormously popular in the Egyptian streets. His government had overcome the emergency of its Sinai defeat, but had not yet tackled its immense long-term problems (the economy is stagnant, and overcommitted-by as much as 37% of its foreign trade-to the Soviet bloc). Addressing his new one-party Parliament early in the week, Nasser seemed almost too subdued to be true. He summarized his regime's homefront achievements ("Our greatest gain is hope"), and bore down on the need...
After so restrained a performance, the Egyptian crowds expected that the strongman's public speech in Alexandria four days later would be sensational. But though it had more fury, it was not wild. Once again Nasser went back over the past, going to great lengths to explain away last fall's sordid military defeat as a "glorious withdrawal." For the first time he managed to acknowledge: "We cannot deny America's attitude during the aggression and its condemnation of such aggression, as well as its attitude...
...soldier turned professor, proletarian turned sahib. His The Picnic at Sakkara (TIME, Aug. 29, 1955) was a rich and penetrating fantasy of life in the Nile delta in the last hours of King Farouk. In Revolution and Roses he has moved on in time to the period when an Egyptian army clique led by General Naguib and Colonel Nasser turn out Farouk and take on the cumbrous business of governing a country that had "never had any real independence since...
Nothing of the sort happens, and Elaine finally leads her Egyptian officer back to London at the end of her typewriter ribbon. Yehia is happy with his revolution (it may be a dictatorship, he concedes, but it is a "dictatorship by Egyptians") and becomes military attaché in London, where he and Elaine melt into a clinch as the organ of a nonconformist chapel thunders through the wall of her flat...
Long one of Egypt's most popular political figures, Salah el Din became something of a national hero by leading the successful drive in 1951 for Egypt's abrogation of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty. As a leading Cairo lawyer, he has never concealed his distaste for the Nasser regime; he spoke out before the National Bar Association in 1954 for a return to democratic processes, and was duly denounced by Nasser for "treachery." But from his jail cell he denied that he had endorsed any plot on Nasser's life. The government said that all 14 "traitors...