Word: imperiale
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At an exhibition of Indian folk dances, Bulganin and Khrushchev clambered to the stage to embrace the dancers. Khrushchev waved his arms like a conductor as they chanted, "Indians and Russians Are Brothers!" Bulganin, tiring in the fast pace of the month-long good-will tour, was happy to play...
Red Soviet flags flew everywhere. Street names with an "imperial'' flavor were changed, such as Queensway, which became Road of the People. Forty thousand schoolchildren rehearsed for days their roles as spontaneous greeters. Free special trains from the Punjab and Uttar Pradesh poured peasants in to swell the...
Everybody was caught up in a succession of sequences. Egypt's purchase of Soviet arms had set off the Arab-Israeli tension; Egypt's own dangerous flirtation with the Communists had in turn been set off by the decision of the northern Arab states to side with the...
His industry and vigor made an immense paraphrase of the remark of another Tory Englishman. Samuel Johnson, who said that every man thinks meanly of himself for not having worn a red coat. But red coats were out in 1914. War meant mud, barbed wire and lice. Kipling's...
El Glaoui, at 80 one of the richest and proudest sons of the Prophet, showed up at the royal pavilion outside Paris where Sultan ben Youssef is now regally established, awaiting his return to the throne. The old pasha was kept waiting one hour. Then, after photographers and reporters had...