Word: fez
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Stavros declares that he keeps his honor safe inside himself: "I believe that in America, I will be washed clean." But his obsessive hankering after America goes unjustified. The film even suggests that Stavros' monomania is sheer materialism. On the ship he throws away his fez, pledging to buy himself a straw boater in the new land. Was it then greed that drew him to the United States? Even his concern for his family does not balance the absence of higher motives...
...pointers when he witnessed the 1960 U.S. election campaign) passed out thousands of free miniature soccer balls, T-shirts and campaign buttons bearing the royalist party color (yellow). More important for Hassan, however, was the traditional apathy of Morocco's 75% illiterate population. In the ancient city of Fez, a heavily veiled scrubwoman candidly declared, "I do not know what it is all about, but I am going to vote for my King...
...FEZ AS New York City...
...York's Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, 53, donned an outsized fez to preside over Yankee Stadium festivities of the 62nd annual Negro Elks' convention. Next day, at Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, the Governor passed the fez-to his eldest son, Rodman, 28, who strode to the Grand Ballroom dais and invoked 2,000 delegates of the Improved Benevolent Protective Order with the salutation, "Brothers and daughters...
...Town Hall did little more than wince, or cringe in their seats. When the last cataclysmic sound had died away, they gave a standing ovation to the sturdy, craggy-faced composer who made his way to the podium. At 75, Composer Edgard Varèse (rhymes with fez) was finally receiving the acclaim he deserves as the U.S.'s Grand Old Man of electronic music...