Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home John and his family are shielded from sightseers, photographers and reporters under the noes of White House Press Secretary James Hagerty and the eyes of Secret Service men. In their starkly furnished, rented three-bedroom brick house in Alexandria, Va., just ten minutes by car from the Pentagon, John and Barbara Eisenhower live, by deliberate design, a quiet life. With the customary occasional helping hand from the in-laws, they get along on John's Army pay and allowances (monthly total: roughly $670). There are four youngsters to feed and clothe: rambunctious, outgoing David, 9; lively, pigtailed Barbara...
...book is also a hymn to Alexandria, a city that has "a strong flavor without having any real character," where sects as well as sex proliferate. Between bouts of love, Justine searches for something to believe in. She learns most from Balthazar, an initiate of the cabala, whose crypticisms ("Passionate love even for a man's own wife is also adultery") leave her in such a state that "at night you can hear her brain ticking like a cheap alarm-clock...
...hailed by T. S. Eliot as "the first piece of work by a new English writer to give me any hope for the future of prose fiction." Unfortunately, Justine's most effective moments are not those of the novelist but of the poet. The evocation of Alexandria in singing, interpolated paragraphs has more reality than the delineation of the principal characters. When the book is finished the people fade, but the riddles of existence and the cruelties of love remain as vivid images. And Alexandria remains as well, with its dusttormented streets, its lemony sunlight, where even the sulky...
...Alexandria scores of thousands rushed to see a new Soviet-delivered submarine. In Cairo perhaps a million watched a military parade as big as last year's, with Soviet rocket launchers and tanks, and, overhead, Soviet-made jet bombers and fighters flashing good form in their first flypast (but showing gaps on the second pass because some were unable to keep in formation). The Russian arms were impressive, but conspicuously missing from the parade were last year's armed units from other Arab nations. It was a revealing indication of Nasser's diminished popularity with other Arab...
After so restrained a performance, the Egyptian crowds expected that the strongman's public speech in Alexandria four days later would be sensational. But though it had more fury, it was not wild. Once again Nasser went back over the past, going to great lengths to explain away last fall's sordid military defeat as a "glorious withdrawal." For the first time he managed to acknowledge: "We cannot deny America's attitude during the aggression and its condemnation of such aggression, as well as its attitude...