Word: populi
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...Essay "The Politics of the Box Populi" [June 11], Lance Morrow asks, "What is the political content of Mork & Mindy?"He should realize that even now, Morkese is slipping past the international dubbers into the languages of every tongue and tribe. Today's young viewers may some day meet in the U.N. with a fork-fingered felicitation and a "Nanoo, nanoo...
...this weekend, Collegium will perform some of the finest of the mixed choral music ever composed. The formidable ensemble will sing the young Mozart's Missa Solemnis, Sancta Maria, Litaniae Lauretanae, Kyrie K. 323, Qualite Primum Regnum, and Venite Populi...
...Rheims (Max Helpmann) in favor of the individual conscience. She subverts the authority of the lords temporal and their feudal privileges by proclaiming the supremacy of the nation-state. Her real visions, then, are of the dawn of the age of democracy, and her real voice is the vox populi. She is, to Shaw, a saint of the downtrodden masses. And in the course of the play, she spouts enough demagogic cant about the rights of the individual to run for office herself...
...this treatment, the servant's dicta are generally recognized as the dry-witted, earthy folk wisdom of vox populi. What is more interesting, and not generally recognized, is that the servant also speaks to these particular masters with vox Dei. The servant tries to warn the master that if he persists in his extravagant behavior, be it passion or madness, he affronts not only the social but the cosmic order, and will incur the vengeful wrath of the gods. The servant dare not speak too freely lest he be cuffed or dismissed. The master pulls his rank and fails...
...equally important lesson of the results may be the reminder that vox populi still has the ability to surprise. Britons aged 18 to 20 were voting for the first time in a general election-just as Americans in a comparable age group may be casting their ballots in 1972. Contrary to expectations, the young Britons made no important difference for Labor. In an age of computers, all but one of Britain's polling firms were almost preposterously wrong. Politicians need to learn anew from time to time-as in the 1948 U.S. presidential election or in the 1969 French...