Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blizzarded down in an undifferentiated heap when the past was taking place, then sorting it out in chaste, clean piles. It never makes sense, even when considering years as recent as the past 60. What really happened? History relies on memory, and memory on will. An 11th century Chinese emperor possessed a newly invented clock, which his people knew about, though no one owned a clock but he. When the emperor died, the imperial clock was allowed to fall apart, and everyone forgot that such a device had ever existed. Five hundred years later, Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit priest, arrived...
...other ecclesiastical assemblies that Roman Catholicism ranks as ecumenical. It is the first council that did not face, or leave in its wake, heresy or schism. Councils have always been the church's last-resort response to crisis-from the First Council of Nicaea, summoned by Emperor Constantine in 325 to combat the Arian heresy, to the abortive Vatican I (1869-70), which faced the bewildering effects of the ever-widening industrial revolution...
...assistants, and all of the movers and shakers saw the same evidence. But once the emperor made his statement, they too feared reprisals, so they suppressed these bad thoughts and publically proclaimed a celebration. A leading member of the Senate howled. "We've licked the recession, "We've licked inflation...now we've got unemployment on the run." Even the normally cynical media concurred. "U.S. Jobless Rate Plunges a Half-Point to 9.5%," one headline screamed. Another paper said that "economic recovery [is] apparently gaining strength...
Heartened by this reception, the emperor walked among the people. "Hurray for the recovery, "they cheered. "Four more years," some yelled...
Sensing displeasure, the emperor turned to the crowd. Shaking his head back and forth, and tightly pursing his lips, he spurted "There you go again. I've had it up to my kiester with this hypercritical look at my administration. "He identified the young child as a Soviet spy, and had him placed under FBI surveillance...