Word: proverbes
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These harsh lessons have not been lost on the Soviets, who have learned the truth of the oldest Middle Eastern proverb: "You can't buy an Arab; only rent him." As a result, the Russians are becoming more selective in their aid, smarter in getting more for their money. In Iran they are collaborating in sensible, largely unpolitical, neighborly ventures: planning dams on their common border, stocking the Caspian Sea, which the two countries share, with sturgeon to keep the caviar flowing. In Turkey, too, they have proposed a joint border hydroelectric project. But for all their frustrations...
...tomb of Pharaoh Zoser, who reigned about 2980 B.C., but Imhotep was its architect. And because it is the oldest stone pyramid, the Egyptians have credited Imhotep with inventing the art of building with cut stone. He was also Zoser's prime minister, a magician, sage, proverb maker, and patron of the scribes who ran the Egyptian bureaucracy. Century by century through Egypt's long history his reputation grew. During the Ptolemaic dynasty (323-30 B.C.), when Greeks ruled Egypt, he was identified with Asclepius, their mythical source of the healing arts; sick people limped to his shrines...
...generations on end, the Greeks have gone into shipping as their natural calling, reassured by an ancient Hellenic proverb that the sea never freezes. Stavros Spyros Niarchos, 55, a trim, dapper Greek and a former brother-in-law of Magnate Aristotle Socrates Onassis, has carried on the tradition with flair and fabulous success, now owns a fleet of 74 tankers and freighters whose stacks bear the white "N" known in every port. But Niarchos, who became the world's largest independent shipowner, is ready to change course. Last week the word was out that his whole fleet...
...that the dying Jocelin can say as he views the tilting spire, "It's like the apple tree." There is a kind of vague inspirationalism to it all, but the book never becomes effective as the story of a man, and emerges as a foredoomed effort to stretch a proverb into a novel...
Christina, who peeks from behind the covers to discover Mother with lover, is confused. How can God be love when love is such a down-to-the-floor proposition? No proverb fits the situation, but she learns, under Claude's tulelege, that being too polite prevents much delight. While modesty remains the best policy, the result is the "downfall of true love and the upsurge...