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...Craft of Kingship. Rarer and more precious than rubies in Southeast Asia, however, is political stability and its sine qua non: a sense of belonging to a nation. The Thais have both. Though various ruling officers have come and gone since a 1932 coup gently displaced the King as absolute ruler, Kings and soldiers have combined, in a typical Thai equilibrium of accommodation, to provide a smooth chain linkage of government. The Thai sense of nationhood is partly the result of never having felt the trauma of colonial conquest. Even more, it resides in the charisma of the throne, reinforced...
Rare words for a Catholic priest, and rarer still for a Catholic priest in Spain, where the church has always hewed closely to the gospel according to Franco. But last week throughout Barcelona, one priest after another was echoing Father Laurel's sermon in the wake of the bloody police attack on 120 black-robed priests in Barcelona early this month (TIME, May 20). The clash erupted when the priests staged a march protesting alleged police brutality in connection with anti-government student unrest at Barcelona University...
...George and the Dragon, bought with funds from Ailsa Mellon Bruce, is even rarer and richer, considering its size. So small is the postcard-shaped (5⅜ in. by 4⅛ in.) oil that the gallery has built a magnifying glass in the showcase; so costly is it that the work was auctioned last March for $26,552 per sq. in. At the sale, it was called a Hubert van Eyck, but the National's curators now attribute it to Rogier van der Weyden. They suspect that St. George is one part of a diptych whose matching half, which...
...flies like an arrow" is not really very different from "Fruit flies like a banana," but their diagrams are at opposite poles. In the latter, "fruit flies" are a species of fly and "like" is a verb. Why shouldn't the machine say that "time flies" are another (admittedly rarer) species...
Candor in a military dictator is a rare quality, and self-criticism rarer still. But Burmese Strongman General Ne Win offered both in abundance at a recent Rangoon seminar of his Socialist Program Party. The topic: potholes in Ne Win's "Burmese road to socialism," launched soon after he took power in 1962 and began nationalizing every thing in sight. The economy, confessed the general, "is in a mess." So much so, he added, that "if Burma were not a country with an abundance of food, we would all be starving...