Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a remarkable reign, Faisal died at a time when his prestige throughout the Arab world was at a peak. In the past, many Arab radicals had savagely attacked him as a reactionary, tyrannical ruler of a feudal desert kingdom. But all that changed after Faisal dramatically imposed the oil embargo in October 1973. The Cairo daily al Gumhouriya, once a vehicle for anti-Faisal propaganda campaigns, observed last week: "The Arab nation can never forget his heroic stand during the October war, or that he launched the oil battle in support of the fighters in Sinai and the Golan...
...Faisal's brothers serving as pallbearers, to a graveyard on the outskirts of Riyadh where commoners as well as royalty are buried. The body was laid to rest in an unmarked grave not far from that of Faisal's fa ther, Ibn Saud, founder of the kingdom...
What seems to draw southerners home...is a genuine aching and evidently almost constant need to re-experience themselves it is this need that I have noted only rarely in Texas. Texas is very new--still very new--and it has always been urgent, intemperate, and barbaric...The cattle kingdom was not the cotton kingdom: it had no refinement, no architecture, and no leisured class--certainly no leisured ladies. Even now, few Texans slow down to look at their energy is far more phone to the masochism of overwork than to the sweeter masochism of nostalgia, a preference that...
...three most recent coronation ceremonies. The coronation of King Tribhuvan in 1913-witnessed by only one foreigner, the resident British ambassador-required the services of 109 elephants. The crowning of King Mahendra in 1956, attended by representatives of 15 of the growing number of nations with which the Himalayan kingdom then exchanged diplomats, required 43. For last week's coronation of King Birendra, the streets of Katmandu were aswarm with hundreds of foreign guests representing the some 60 countries with which Nepal now has relations. But only 23 elephants took part...
...prestige and rewards comfortably. He notes that he lives in a large house and is "affluent beyond his sense of decency." He guiltily admits that he is "a dissident, not a revolutionary." Up to a point, he might even agree with Gay Talese's conclusion in The Kingdom and the Power-that Wicker "became caught up in the current of journalism, the daily opiate of the restless...