Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...photographer, and an old friend who is a French garage owner in Rabat, and repaired to the garden for a characteristically French game of boules (lawn bowling), throwing his hands in the air, wailing "Ayayaya" when he missed. For the rest of the long Ramadan night, Mohammed V alternated Moslem prayers with U.S. movies (The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Desert Caravan), retired at dawn to sleep until midafternoon...
...Wisdom. This combination of Islam and West, of Moroccan nationalist with French boules companions, is characteristic of this thin-voiced, soft-eyed man who sits hunched on the edge of his throne almost as if overwhelmed by its high-arching brocaded back. In the turbulent world of emergent Moslem nationalism, Mohammed. 47, is an all but unique example of instinctive moderation surrounded by intemperate ambition. His is a skillful balancing act between tradition, which can become stagnation, and progress, which can become confusion...
...result, 875 Moroccan physicians are French, only 19 Moslem; there are 350 French lawyers, only 27 Moslem. The French lived in Morocco as in a good hotel, and luxurious apartment houses overlooked squalid bidonvilles where Arab laborers crowded into shacks roofed over with flattened gasoline tins...
...year after his enthronement, young Mohammed made his first trip abroad, came back resolved that he must liberate himself from the prison of Koranic tradition, adopt those European ways that would not conflict with what was essential in the Moslem code. When his wife first became pregnant, he went to Paris to bring back a crib, diapers, sterilized bottles, baby scales and a French midwife, explaining: "I want my son's umbilical cord cut in the 20th century manner...
...Closely watched by the French, he had little part in Morocco's first stirrings towards independence. Not until a delegation of Fez educators came to him in 1940 to complain that the French would not allow them to organize a school for girls did he realize that nonroyal Moslem girls did not go to school, promptly promised, "I will make my daughter Aisha the missionary of feminine emancipation." During the wartime Casablanca Conference, President Franklin Roosevelt invited him to dine. It was the first time Morocco's Sultan had been allowed to meet any foreign head of state...