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...attention was riveted to TIME as I rode a bus climbing into the Judean Hills from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. You could not have chosen a more appropriate time than Passover to discuss the modern Pharaoh who glares across the Red Sea at us. As the bus wound higher into the hills, the elderly lady seated next to me looked at the expression on my face, then eyed Nasser's picture, and, patting my arm, she said, "Never mind, never mind. God will protect us. Fifteen years ago we had nothing here at all. Now see," and she nodded...
More than 3.000 years ago, Ramses II. Pharaoh of Egypt, had his slaves cut a magnificent temple out of a sandstone cliff beside the Nile. Four colossal figures, designed as monuments to the Pharaoh, sit impassively beside the temple entrance. But for all its magnificence, the Temple of Abu Simbel is apparently doomed. For lack of $22 million, the cost of a few bombers or missiles, it will soon be submerged under 200 ft. of muddy water backed up by the High Dam being built at Aswan 180 miles downstream...
...real keynoter was Dr. Abraham J. Heschel, whose book you review on the same page but whose thumping paper at the conference you ignore. Dr. Heschel recalled an earlier conference on religion and race, that between Moses and Pharaoh, and predicted an equally happy outcome for this one. His prediction, I feel certain, will be borne out in the long-term fruits of this historic meeting...
...with plots suggested by Jack London. Stacton writes so fast that he is able to arrange his novels in "triplets"-bouquets of three related volumes-and he turns out a triplet almost every year. Among his novels published in the U.S. are On a Balcony, about Nefertiti and the Pharaoh Ikhnaton; The Judges of the Secret Court, about the events subsequent to Lincoln's assassination; and most recently, A Dancer in Darkness, a superbly gory retelling of the legend of the Duchess of Amalfi. Usually his books are brief and taut, and he is contemptuous of jumbo novels...
...characters who vibrate to Stacton's obsessive music move in a dim past - 14th century Japan (Segaki), Yucatan at the time of the Spanish conquest (A Signal Victory), the court of the Pharaoh Ikhnaton (On a Balcony). This time the novelist chooses a subject particularly well suited to his oddly cerebral evocation of blood and brass: the legend of the Duchess of Amain...