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...later years Paris became a home to exiles from North Africa, including the deposed Algerian President Ahmed ben Bella. Among the Iranian exiles who found refuge there in the 1970s was the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who lived in the dreary suburb of Neauphle-le-Chateau. After his triumphal return to Iran, Khomeini chased the Shah's last Prime Minister, Shapour Bakhtiar, out of the country. Where did Bakhtiar go? To Paris, along with a deposed Iranian President, Abolhassan Banisadr...
...triumphal pageantry of the 1984 Olympics, and now of the centennial of the Statue of Liberty, may represent an emotional regrouping. The American character quite distinctly decrystallized during the '60s and '70s. It became alienated from itself, and Americans entertained the depressive thought that they had ceased to be themselves. The nation was taken over by Others. In the current recrystallization, Americans are asserting their past, their myths, their freedoms. They think of immigrants and New York Harbor and Ellis Island. But they fetch back, too, to a paler, sweeter image --in Robert Lowell's verse, "Main Street's shingled...
This monumental survey deserves to be published to the strains of the triumphal march from Aida. The Art of Ancient Egypt by Kazimierz Michalowski (Abrams; 600 pages; $125) embraces some 5,000 years and 30-odd dynasties. Cheops, Tutankhamen, eleven Ramseses, a dozen Ptolemys and Cleopatra enliven a history that contains the seeds of the Western imagination. Polish Professor Michalowski links chapters on anthropology, language, society and craft with more than 100 pages of diagrams and maps. Some 900 pictures, including 145 in color, illustrate masterpieces of sculpture and painting seldom seen in print. Here, scholarship and grandeur are inseparable...
...other anniversaries of this season, such as next month's 40th anniversary of V-E day, will have about them a certain triumphal air for Americans. They will celebrate not merely the fact that the U.S. won but that they fought on the side that incontestably should have won. The outcome of World War II seemed to validate American power as an instrument of virtue in the world...
...mood is very real, although of course it is not universal," says Morrow. "One day in early fall I flew with the Reagan campaign to Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Outside the hall we could still see the protesters with angry signs. But inside there was a raucous, triumphal, almost overbearing energy. It was as if the campus rage of the '60s had been turned inside...