Word: kingdome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fifth Dynasty, a period of the Old Kingdom that lasted from about 2450 to 2290 B.C., is a puzzling blank in Egyptology. Little of its art has survived; its pyramids were jerry-built and unprepossessing; the surviving clues to its history are so meager that few of its pharaohs can even be identified. One who can be was King Ny-user-ra, who ruled from about 2370 to 2360 B.C. Few statues of Ny-user-ra were known; one of them was in the Cairo Museum. It gave no hint of his appearance, since head and torso were missing...
...prevent him from feeling that organization would undermine his authority, and being, at root, the insecure child of a frustrated, demanding father, he lacked the confidence and grace that would have eliminated the need for the yes-men who formed what was always more his court than his kingdom. Finally and most damagingly of all, his grasp of the world beyond the orb of the Southern black middle class was imperfect to the point of terminal misconstruction. Thus as Williams quotes Joanne Grant, a black reporter who covered King closely, "It was very important that he should make the decisions...
...sovereign wanderer, lordly exile, worker and waiter and watcher." Underlying the satire is a rueful equanimity and a lingering hope, one sometimes found in both Catholics and Southerners, that there may be a point to the working and watching, that there may be one day a kingdom for the exile...
...sided decision; the court is still talking about the South; the North is still going free." There was the expected outcry from intransigent segregationists. Alabama Governor George Wallace called the decision "arbitrary, asinine and illogical," and claimed that it is now "legal to bus little children to kingdom come." But one of the affected school officials, Kenneth Schubring, president of Georgia's Clarke County school board, welcomed the decision. "The South/' he said, "used to bus to segregate; now we're busing to integrate...
...members: Austria, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom...