Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unique Occasion. Even some critics of the "imperial presidency" worry that Ford may be weakening his office by testifying before Congress. But he feels that he is giving nothing away since he is going voluntarily. As Ford explains it, since a presidential pardon of a former President is such a...
Haldeman, Nixon's chief of staff, tried to shift him to a smaller office, he resisted: "Listen, I didn't resign a first-class seat in Congress to take a second-class office in the White House." Now he has Haldeman's office, though without the title...
Lorenzo da Ponte, Mozart's librettist, had to get special imperial permission before the opera could be produced, and though da Ponte mitigated Beaumarchais's social commentary he left intact his characterizations, characterizations that Mozart fleshed out into some of the most convincing in music.
Land Deals. The opposition first surfaced a fortnight ago in the shattered former imperial capital of Hue, where 5,000 civilians gathered in front of the city's Roman Catholic cathedral to protest government corruption. The complaint was familiar enough, but the specifics were startlingly new. In a document...
Fairbank argues that China has not freed itself from this Confucian past, despite Mao Tse-tung's revolution. Like the China of old, the People's Republic is still "massive, profoundly collectivist, and professedly anti-individualist." Important habits of the Confucian tradition have been modified: rule by an...