Word: triumphale
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...sizzling streets of Cairo and Alexandria were charged with happiness and excitement as 23 million Egyptians took a long holiday last week to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Nasser's revolution, the first anniversary of the seizure of the Suez Canal. On a hundred triumphal arches banners proclaimed: "Egypt, Tomb of Aggressors." "Nasser, Hero of Peace." From radios and loudspeakers all over the great (pop. 2,100,506) city of Cairo, the Big Brotherly voice of Nasser could be heard everywhere...
...pageant, a piece of "total theater," Christophe Colomb employs language, music, choruses, crowds, ballet, a movie screen, a narrator. Nor is Colomb just biographical. It is encrusted with philosophic thought, is suffused with Catholic Poet Claudel's intense religious feeling, and indeed concludes with Queen Isabella's triumphal entrance into Heaven...
This week, Minou was back in Paris after a triumphal tour of Switzerland and Italy. Along the way, she had been the star of a poetry festival in Taormina and had an audience with the Pope. Said Minou to His Holiness: "I have gone into many churches looking for God, but all I find are stained-glass windows and pillars." It is not recorded what the Pope replied to this, but later he asked the poet for a copy of her book. Whereupon Minou asked archly, "Haven't you read it yet?", and promised to send...
...long brown body bare except for a white bikini and a brilliant, feather-patterned headdress. In a primitive tribal dance that recalled his appearance last year in Broadway's House of Flowers, Holder leaped and writhed with a fierce catlike virility that more than matched Verdi's triumphal music...
...curious position for the man whom the Opposition only ten months before was calling "the boneless wonder," who only 17 months ago had won a triumphal election on a platform of "working for peace." Elegant, unruffled, a good party man, priding himself on the quiet adjustment and the deft compromise, Eden had built a reputation as a diplomatic technician par excellence. But last week the diplomatic technician had plunged recklessly for force, the popular Prime Minister was under a shattering hail of critical fire unequaled in violence since the time of Neville Chamberlain...