Word: pharaoh
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...year-old Konrad Adenauer have had to wait until 10 p.m. for private tours. French newspapers and magazines are filled with articles on "The Short and Pathetic Life of a Persecuted Monarch" and "Was King Tut Really a Woman?" L'Express depicted De Gaulle as a Pharaoh, and even fashion has been afflicted. Two top hairdressers, Alexandre and Carita, have created Egyptian coiffures and appropriate makeup-blue or black lines outlining lips and nostrils, plus eyeliner extending halfway round to a lady's ears...
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...seem in danger of imminent collapse. Yet, if CORE and S.N.C.C. are in bad shape, their power for promoting discord among Negroes is still very much alive. The problem of the split civil rights movement, said Martin Luther King last week, is as old as the pyramids. "Whenever Pharaoh wanted to keep the slaves in slavery," lamented King, "he kept them fighting among themselves...
...objects-much the way that the Marx Brothers in A Night at The Opera piled people and things into a tiny ship's cabin. In The New Tenant, furniture inexorably chokes up every inch of space until the hero is entombed amid his belongings like a petty-bourgeois Pharaoh. But as the props become more animated, the people become more desiccated. The insides of Ionesco's characters are like the outsides of computers. It is only a step from their interchangeable rhinoplastic noses to their look-alike Rhinoceros horns. Ionesco has drawn a devastating portrait of the Unnoticeables...
Much closer to the deity of modern monotheism was the Egyptian sun god Aten, which the Pharaoh Amenophis IV forced on his polytheistic people as "the only god, beside whom there is no other." But the Pharaoh's heresy died out after his death, and the message to the world that there was but one true God came from Egypt's tiny neighbor, Israel. It was not a sudden revelation. Some scholars believe that Yahweh was originally a tribal deity?a god whom the Hebrews worshiped and considered superior to the pagan gods adored by other nations. It is even...