Word: sphinx
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...most people, the vast geometry of the pyramids and the Great Sphinx's weather-blunted face are all that loom above the mist surrounding Egyptian art. For those who cared to look deeper, U.S. bookstores last week were peddling a thin volume of brilliant photographs titled Egyptian Art (Golden Griffin; $8). Along with its pictures, the book boasted a running commentary by Etienne Drioton, a French priest and scholar who is also director of the Cairo Museum's Department of Egyptian Antiques...
...garden, nearly 3,000 years before the birth of Christ, Egyptians of the "Old Kingdom" produced temples and sculptures that their successors could never surpass. As an example of the earliest and best in Egyptian art, Drioton picks a statue of King Khephren, the man who built the Great Sphinx. Except for the falcon of the royal ancestor-god Horus, which perches like a thought behind King Khephren's head, the portrait shows none of the symbolic attributes of royalty. "And yet," Drioton says, "such is the majesty emanating from this statue of an almost naked man that...
Douglas MacArthur was still playing Sphinx...
...their guests instead of champagne. Graceful gondolas carry it along the narrow canals of Venice, and sturdy, resigned burros tote it into the dusty Mexican hills. Bright red signs proclaim its worth in the shadow of the Matterhorn and beneath the blank, unastonished eyes of the great Sphinx. The gentle burps which it evokes from the drinker are heard amid the bustle of Parisian sidewalk cafes and amid the tinkling of Siamese temple bells...
Died. Montagu Collet Norman, Baron Norman of St. Clere, 78, fox-bearded "Sphinx of Threadneedle Street," who as Governor of the Bank of England (1920-44) ruled the Empire's finances with a skilled and autocratic hand; in London. Attempting to rebuild the international monetary structure shattered by World War I, Norman, with the approval of Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, pushed Britain back onto the gold standard in 1925, was bitterly criticized when the worldwide breakdown forced her off again in 1931. When he finally stepped down, he had held office longer than any other Governor...