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...have glamour at least, and champion athletes grace. But what do the ruling Windsors of Britain have above and beyond their right to rule? This week, as Queen Elizabeth marks her official birthday, one may well feel justified in asking what divine right inheres in her -- an almost powerless figurehead in a country now past its prime -- to command the attention of the world, let alone its enthralled admiration...
...campaign--with Nussbaum as its figurehead manager--quickly snowballed, and The Crimson invited Pogo's creator, Walt Kelly, to Harvard to deliver a chalk talk for his character...
Advertising and media have become the real government; Nanny, head of the Money Party and the nation's prime minister, is a senile figurehead who can barely remember lines from her press releases. (Sound familiar?) She is carefully propped up, powdered and filmed by the advertising firms that keep the country deluged with brightly packaged misinformation. And the ad execs who push the Money Party through the elections are as mind-blown as the street junkies...
...audience. "To study how Americans perceived Toscanini is to study how they perceived themselves," argues Joseph Horowitz, a former music critic for the Times. "As a personality, even as a musician, Toscanini embodied 'self-made' virtues distinguishing the New World from the parent culture of Europe. As the dominant figurehead for Great Music, he furnished proof of New World high cultural achievement . . ." The quality of his interpretations was almost irrelevant; in Horowitz's view, Toscanini and the great American cultural inferiority complex were made for each other...
HARVARD OFFICIALS announced last week that West German President Richard von Weizsacker will be the principal speaker at this year's Commencement Exercises. In picking the figurehead leader of a European nation to deliver the prestigious address, the University for the second year in a row chose a speaker relatively unknown in the United States. Unfortunately, last year's speaker--Lord Carrington, the head of NATO--lived up to his modest pre-billing by delivering a longwinded and sparsely attended address. There is every reason to hope, however, that this year will be different. The selection of President von Weizsacker...