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...Africa's jungles, they founded two great river colonies: the Gold Coast, which is bigger than Minnesota, and Nigeria, which dwarfs Texas and Oklahoma combined, and is Britain's most populous (25 million) African possession. Following Explorer David Livingstone in his search for the source of the Nile, they filtered into East Africa, crossed the Mountains of the Moon, established Kenya Colony and Uganda Protectorate. Farther south, other Britons followed Rhodes, carved out Northern and Southern Rhodesia in his name, and planted the Union Jack in a dozen native kingdoms, e.g., Bechuanaland, Basutoland, Nyasaland...
...national policy," said Aly Maher, "is to achieve evacuation [of the British] and unity of the Nile Valley [meaning Sudan] under the crown of Farouk . . . to maintain peace and security, and safeguard the rights of both natives and foreigners, in order to prove the government's ability ... to give the country a peaceful life...
...ceremony, Egypt's King picked up a telephone himself to break the good news to the Prime Minister. "On this blessed day," proclaimed the national radio a few minutes later, "when the sun of smiling hope arose and the most shining diamond in the Crown of the Nile Valley lighted, the Royal Cabinet announces the birth of Prince Ahmed Fuad...
Serpent of the Nile. The second night brought far vaster sweep, but greater sprawl. A marvel of language, full of what Coleridge called Shakespeare's "angelic strength," Antony with its 42 scenes is also full of history's tumultuous, haphazard movement. Not angelic wings, but seven-league boots are needed for this panoramic drama of conquests and civil wars that is even more a chronicle of power than it is of passion. The characters are uniformly worldlings, plotters, palter-ers, betrayers; even Antony is destroyed by lust, not love; and Cleopatra is as devious as she is passionate...
Purples & Pinks. For his part, Designer Gerard wanted to create an "effect" of Egypt that the modern eye could accept and believe. Emphasizing massiveness ("a Rockefeller Center without windows") rather than the usual archeological detail, his Egypt sometimes seems closer to Broadway than the Nile. Even so, it is effective: his third-act temple looms 36 feet high, four feet higher than his Don Carlo sets (which broke Met records). As he did in Don Carlo, he moved everything down close to the footlights so that many in the Met's 500 "blind" seats could see. But what would...