Word: nile
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crew has participated in the event, a reenactment of an ancient Nile competition, twice before. Last year, the regatta was cancelled because of the Mideast...
Though Harvard's invitation comes from the Egyptian Rowing Federation, Egypt's Ministry of Tourism foots most of the bill. Crew members pay only their airfare to London. Part of a larger Nile festival, the actual racing will occupy a small part of the eight days the crew will spend in Egypt. Most of the time will be spent touring the country...
...Harvard crew will have to consider issues more serious than the "fun" that will be derived from their competition. They owe it to themselves--and ultimately to all those who compete internationally in the future--to at least consider the moral and political implications of their cruise down the Nile this Christmas...
...Daddy (Fred Gwynne), is dying of cancer, and the childless Maggie is in a steely duel with Brick's brother Gooper (Charles Siebert) and his fecund wife Mae (Joan Pape) for the imminent in heritance of "28,000 acres of the richest land this side of the valley Nile." What evolves is a series of confrontations that would reduce the forthcoming Foreman-Ali fight to a game of pattycake...
Hassan Fathy is an Egyptian architect whose life was completely changed in one moment of revelation. It happened when he visited the unspoiled Nubian village of Gharb Aswan on the Upper Nile. What he saw there, he later wrote, was "a way of building that was a natural growth in the landscape, as much a part of it as the palm tree." Sight led to insight. Fathy recognized that traditional architecture, unlike modern industrial architecture, is compatible with "God's environment" of nature, climate and materials. He never looked back...