Word: pasha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon as Actor Scofield completes his London stage run in Gogol's The Government Inspector. Tony Richardson, who directed the film Tom Jones, also directed John Osborne's play Luther. Tom Courtenay, who starred in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner -which Tony Richardson directed-played Pasha in Zhivago, will go back into rep this summer. Albert Finney, who was Tom Jones, has a few more weeks in Arden's Armstrong's Last Goodnight at the National Theater, will next do Strindberg. Gielgud, who brings his Ivanov to the U.S. in April, this time with...
When Turkey lost the war, Kemal Pasha fought on in secret. He cached arms all over the country, established a National Assembly at Ankara, and formed a new Turkish government with himself at its head. Within three years he had smashed an Anglo-Greek army of more than 100,000 men in two magnificent campaigns in Anatolia, recaptured Smyrna* and swung north to the Bosporus, toppled the British government, and forced Lord Curzon to talk Turkey on Kemal's terms...
...reign began auspiciously. Farouk diligently toured Egypt and was acutely aware of the crushing, age-old poverty of the fellahin. On the advice of his Oxford-educated tutor, Ahmed Hassaneen Pasha, Farouk became interested in social reform. In the war years, Farouk and Hassaneen regularly toured bombed areas of Cairo and Alexandria...
Corrupt Courtiers. After the war, Farouk increased his influence in the Middle East by founding the Arab League. Then his first marriage, to Queen Farida, who had borne him three daughters, broke up, and trusted Hassaneen Pasha died of a heart attack. Hassaneen was replaced by an unsavory crew ranging from Pulley Bey, a former Italian barber and electrician, to Kareem Tabet, a wily Lebanese newsman. Farouk was soon gambling away his nights at the card tables of Cairo's Royal Automobile Club or touring the Riviera circuit, where he rented 30-room hotel suites and sometimes dropped more...
...most dramatic volume of Deutscher's biography opens, Trotsky has finally been ejected from the party by Stalin, and, with his wife Natalya, deported to Princes Islands off the coast of Turkey. There the pair set up house in a dilapidated villa they rented from a bankrupt pasha. Trotsky became friendly with the local fishermen and often went out to sea with them...