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...stops or elbow their way through soccer crowds? Would the British really relish a workaday monarchy like Denmark's? The problem with all solutions to the current problems of the royals is that their historically entrenched tradition is profoundly irrational. Early in Victoria's reign, Walter Bagehot wrote of the crown, "Its mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic." Sometime, probably not very far in the future, the British people will have to decide whether they want the magic or the daylight, since having both at one time is simply not working...
...reported "on a grab bag of subjects from Bibles to motorcycles." In 1975 she switched journalistic gears and moved to San Francisco for the Wall Street Journal. She joined TIME's New York bureau in 1979, pausing to go back to school for a year as a Walter Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University. There she specialized in Latin America, which won her an assignment covering Nicaragua...
...royalty, the English economist and journalist Walter Bagehot wrote, "Its mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic." Charles and Diana have allowed the shutters to be opened just a crack. To spread them any further would spoil the illusion. To be modern, yet keep the mystique--that is the trick. It is a trick that Charles and Diana have gracefully mastered...
...Prince of Wales, 32, to Lady Diana Spencer, 20, the well-born and distinctively dishy commoner, is a fairy tale of present pomp and past glory, a last page from the tattered book of empire with the gold leaf still intact. It is by Rudyard Kipling out of Walter Bagehot, a ceremony intended to refurbish and reaffirm tradition...
...monarchy's mystery," Bagehot wrote in 1867, "is its life...