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...herald the victorious campaign he had waged two years earlier against Canaan, to the north of Egypt. In the process, the Pharaoh may have given the world its first recorded mention of the people of Israel. Merenptah's account of his military exploits is inscribed on a granite monolith 7 1/2 ft. high and 3 1/4 ft. wide. The stone was recovered in 1896 from the Pharaoh's funerary temple at Thebes, and is currently in the Cairo museum...
...have nothing against NATO...but we believe it doesn't help us to have a large conglomerate power in Europe," said Dienstbier, adding that the "USSR is not the monolith it used...
...sometimes seemed that the tank-backed Communist Party monolith was now immovable, impenetrable, even immortal. But Brezhnev died, and so did his two successors, and the unthinkable idea of Communists actually surrendering power slowly began to become thinkable...
Shades of detail had not yet been sketched in, but the picture's message was evident. The boulder was Nicolae Ceausescu, and the people were trying to propel the monolith off a cliff. Staring at the unfinished illustration in New York City, a Rumanian guest of the artist Eugene Mihaesco remarked, "I guess we have to push a little harder." That was a year and a half ago. The piece and others by Mihaesco, who was born in Bucharest, have since appeared in Universul, a U.S.-printed biweekly circulated underground in Ceausescu's kingdom. And Rumanians did push, with...
...difficult to think of the U.S.S.R. as a great monolith and to hold rigidly to your views of an adversarial relationship when you get to know individuals," said Dingman, who has been involved in the Harvard exchange since its inception...