Word: triumphalism
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With a burst of furious energy, Egyptian workmen last week completed a three-story, air-conditioned hotel in Alexandria. They raised some 12,000 flags over lampposts and public squares, built 200 triumphal arches, and draped buildings with hundreds of banners car rying slogans of Arab solidarity. As special beach cabins went up on the golden sands of the Mediterranean shore, other workmen dusted and polished furniture and chandeliers in the vast Muntazah Palace and tended 325 acres of gardens...
John Duffy has composed dissonant incidental music, which unmistakably points up both the discordant atmosphere that permeates the castle at Elsinore and the distorted Mannerist style of the play itself. One of the numbers, which is heard several times, is a virtual paraphrase of the "Devil's Triumphal March" from Stravinsky's L'histoire du soldat...
From then on, the weapons chosen range from flotsam and jetsam to pure slapstick. Director Jack Cardiff is at his most ingenious in a triumphal march that turns out to be an ambush-long avenues of Moorish troops stand at rigid attention, each with a quick viking blade at his back. In the subsequent melee, even the lovely Schiaffino is impaled on a lance the size of a mizzenmast. Though such wounds are invariably mortal, they never seem the least bit serious. And that is probably what keeps Ships from going under...
...Triumphal Return? Though some economists hopefully predicted that Papandreou's spending spree will be covered by rising national income, Greek businessmen were uneasy. When King Paul, siding with the new Premier, agreed to postpone a parliamentary vote of confidence, Karamanlis fumed; he charged that in delaying the early test of strength, the King was submitting to "blackmail" by Papandreou, who implicitly threatened that his defeat might cause political disorder and help the left...
...became apparent last May when he paid a triumphal visit to Greece, De Gaulle has visions of rebuilding France's influence in the Middle and Near East. At a banquet in Golestan Palace, in private talks with the Shah and his able Premier, Assadollah Alam, the guest repeated his pitch: Iran enjoys a friend in France, which has had treaty relations with the country since Louis XIV. In an address to Parliament, De Gaulle hailed the Shah's reforms, added that Iran, like France, has preserved dignified independence despite the cold war. He wound up with a grand...