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...Elizabeth and Prince Philip as they were whirled through Addis in the Emperor's Rolls-Royce, which broke down only once. At one point they transferred to the silken cab of a green and scarlet imperial coach pulled by a team of six Lippizaner horses. They dined on lamb, watt (Ethiopia's excellent meat and vegetable stew), tedj-a honey-based mead-and Taitinger champagne. The imperial touch was also present when Elizabeth journeyed over the dusty plain to Asmara, where she was greeted by dancing spearsmen and was delightfully dive-bombed by an Ethiopian army plane...
...headed up to dinner. The Varsity Club features occasional steaks, filet mignon once or twice a week, thick pork chops, good roast beef and lamb. The food is always good, but tonight's conversation...
...rest of the war trying to persuade the Jews to surrender. He believed it to be God's will that Rome, the mightier culture, should prevail. In their bullheadedness, the Jews ignored the classic portents of disaster: chariots darting through the clouds, a cow giving birth to a lamb in the Temple of Herod. When Palestine was finally crushed, its people scattered in the Diaspora that was to be their fate for nearly 19 centuries, Josephus, the survivor, coolly observed: "Such were the agonies to which the Jews condemned themselves...
This is not to imply that the play is ever a bore; it is, instead guilefully charged with mesmeric fascinations. It begins with an abrasively effective encounter between two ex-schoolmates who loathe each other. One is a Roman Catholic cardinal (Eric Berry), not remotely a lamb of God but one of the fatted kine of the clerical Establishment. The other is a lawyer (William Hutt), a man of cool, reptilian venom with a hint of Mephistopheles in his brief beard and black-magical manner. They goad each other with insults, and the cardinal muses malevolently on how the lawyer...
...Miss Lamb said the government of South Vietnam has no support among most of the people, who "don't care one hoot about 'isms', one way or the other." The people only want to live in peace, she said, and the South Vietnamese government "has interfered far more with the daily lives of the peasants than the regime in the north...