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...breaking point. Indeed, alarmed at the frequency with which British troops are dispatched to overseas trouble spots, the London Daily Telegraph harrumphed: "Officers who hold the Queen's Commission cannot be air-freighted without ceremony from their lawful appointments. British battalions cannot be whistled about like errand boys...
Before Johnson accepted the vice-Presidency, students of the Constitution had often criticized the parties for nominating nonentities for the office. Now they saw the other side of the coin; a man of Presidential qualities found his time wasted on errand-boy duties that others could as easily have performed...
...lucky ones," Domenico thinks, and Director Olmi does not explicitly contradict him. He simply watches the boy put on his uniform, sit at his desk, run an errand here and an errand there, find out how bosses talk to office boys ("Will power works miracles!"), pick up some wisdom at the water cooler ("Never trust a man with two nostrils"), peer into his first pay envelope, start a little office romance (Loredana Detto), survive a big office party, inspect a dozen dismal, petty employees who function as industrial implements but do not live...
This organizational change will complement a theological reform that presumably will be enacted by the council in the first item on the session's agenda: De Ecclesia (On the Church). Since the definition of papal infallibility in 1870, bishops have often seemed to be little more than Vatican errand boys. Yet the traditional teaching of the church is that bishops are just as truly descendants of the apostles as the Pope -a doctrine that will be brought out with new clarity in De Ecclesia...
...well, especially to one so given to jeremiads as our own. Historians, like individuals, tell and retell their stories, hoping finally to tell them right, to arrive at a definition of the past which carries its own sort of eloquence. And even as impending national maturity crowds the historical errand into new postures, the grand old jeremiad, when well told, retains its impact, and its relevance