Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King Saud is down to his last few dozen concubines, scrimps along on a Swiss bank account that has dwindled to a mere $250 million, and has taken the hint from his brother, King Feisal, who deposed him in 1964, that he's not welcome in his homeland. In Greece, where he now hitches his camel, the 67-year-old monarch could not even summon a smile when his daughter, Princess Apta, 23, presented him with a new grandson named Abdul Aziz. There was good reason for Saud's glumness: he already has supported countless ex-wives...
Twice De Gaulle has heard France call. The first time was in 1940, when, an unknown brigadier general, he climbed into a Royal Air Force plane near Bordeaux and escaped to England, where he organized the Free French forces that ultimately helped free his occupied homeland. The second was in 1958, when the colons and paratroopers in Algeria rose in revolt. But now, a decade after his second call to service, France is caught up in almost as much chaos as?and perhaps more than?when De Gaulle came to power in 1958. The question is, Can De Gaulle once...
...nationalist view of the Black Experience. In this view of the Black Experience, the slave trade is seen as the beastly act of beastly White men--or, in Malcolm X's memorable phrase, "White Devils"--who without pity or remorse wrenched millions of Negro Africans from their ancestral homeland for enforced and dehumanizing labor in the Western Hemisphere...
...wanderer becomes "that man who was a guest for the night and stayed for many nights." Agnon himself was born in the Galicia region of Austro-Hungarian Poland, went to Palestine as a very young man, then back to Europe during World War I before returning to his adopted homeland. Obvious elements of disenchanted autobiography are present in the words that another character speaks to the guest: "When a man sees that there is no place in the world that he loves, he deceives himself into thinking he loves his town." The guest is soon disillusioned. War and time have...
...years ago, a Scandinavian composer proclaimed: "I believe in Bach, Mozart, Carl Nielsen, and absolute music." Carl Nielsen? At the mention of the Danish composer's name, most non-Scandinavians could only look blank or grope for their music dictionaries. Nielsen's reputation in his homeland had been supreme since his death in 1931 at 66, but unlike his Finnish contemporary Jean Sibelius, he was a nobody in the European and especially the U.S. music world...