Word: jihan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago Harvard selected Professor of Greek Emeritus John H. Finley '25, after Jihan Sadat, widow of the slain Egyptian leader, said she could not make...
...bolstered the reputation. But extending similar invitations the following two years, alumni officials were not quite so successful. They tried for then-recently-inaugurated President Ronald Reagan in 1981, and settled for Thomas Watson, former ambassador to Moscow and head of IBM. In 1982, they tried for recently widowed Jihan Sadat and ended up with John H Finley '25. Fliot Professor of Greek Emeritus...
...international giants Harvard had invited unsuccessfully in both years. In 1981, the University asked President Reagan to deliver the Commencement address, after the White House had sent out signals that the chief executive might be interested in making such a speech. The next year Harvard offered the platform to Jihan Sodat, the widow of the recently claim Egyptian leader. Both sent rejection letters...
...presidential dress and eating habits take note: Anwar Sadat has an aversion to shellfish and dinner jackets. Marginalia in the great sweep of international affairs, of course, but such items were priorities for the White House staff as it planned last week's double date for Anwar, Jihan, Ronnie and Nancy. It was the first state dinner in the Reagan Administration at which men wore business suits instead of black tie. Not a shrimp or crab claw was to be seen. But the Reagans' high style was very much in evidence, reinforcing their reputation as the best partygivers...
Rebecca, Follett's 13th novel (several were written under pen names), combines the authentic tension of the times with breathless high adventure and breathers of low comedy. Sonja's Nile-blue bisexual capers aboard her houseboat Jihan do not exactly resemble the mild erotica enacted aboard Travis McGee's Busted Flush in Florida. And one wild street donnybrook introduces a hilarious Cairene Fagin whose thievery steals more scenes than secrets...