Word: royals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seen a doctor before and believe no medical care can help them if Allah wants them to die. Better-educated Saudis, including numerous princes and princesses, rarely get medical care at home, preferring the better-known hospitals abroad. Gray's vivid anecdotes tell of other incongruities of the country: royal patients who demand an entourage of 100 attendants in the hospital. Bedouins who try to cure themselves by branding, and their wives, who are willing to strip for a physical examination only if they may keep their long black veils over their faces...
...both the rich and the poor, seeing more facets of the Saudi culture than a diplomat might. The narrative skips around in time as the author tries, sometimes confusingly, to cram all of three years of experience into 300 pages; he shares dinner with a Bedouin tribe, attends a royal wedding, and spends a great deal of time in conversations with a wide range of Saudi patients and acquaintances, from poor farmers to members of the plush Arab-American Oil Company that first discovered Arabian...
...common people, priests often find themselves obliged to act in support of the peasant's case. It must not be forgotten that the first armed rebellion against Spain, in 1810, started in a church courtyard in Dolores, Mexico. The leader was Father Miguel Hidalgo, who died before a royal firing squad. The insurrection ultimately succeeded when Mexico won its independence from Spain...
...their good feeling for him. India's granite lady, Indira Gandhi, actually seemed coquettish with Reagan. Queen Elizabeth did not have to throw a party-after-the-party for the Reagans during her West Coast visit. But she did, and even joined in songs around the piano, a royal rarity...
...Royal 7. Orioles...