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Conventions for the incumbent are supposed to be ceremonial reaffirmations of the regnant leader. This one is flirting with thoughts of regicide. The Republicans are acting less like Democrats than like the early leaders of Students for a Democratic Society, busily excommunicating each other, thundering mutual anathemas...
...been named commander of all U.S. forces in the Southwest Pacific-but with no visible support in troops, ships or supplies. He was indignant. I visited him in his headquarters at Melbourne, Australia. He managed to denounce all at once, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the President; George Catlett Marshall, the regnant chief of staff; Harry Luce, the publisher of my magazine; and the U.S. Navy. ("White," he said, "the best navy in the world is the Japanese Navy. A first-class navy. Then comes the British Navy. The U.S. Navy is a fourth-class navy, not even as good...
...rich for any to believe that it doesn't belong to all of us. As long as we act the part of the living and hold it sacred by our deeds, it will not escape us. We must get together-poor and vulnerable black tenant farmers, Spanish speaking regnant youth, the young people of Appalachia, a region so long plundered of its wealth, wealth which has been stripped from the ground and carried elsewhere leaving those who did the work very little in return...
...many respects a more useful legend. It answers the purpose of literary history more readily; it changes; it adapts itself to the demands of diverse generations and diverse beliefs. It provides a more reliable and more 'readable' barometer than Shylock to the kind of civilization, ideology, and regnant literary convention in which it flourishes, for each age recreates the Wandering Jew in its own image...
...members of virtually every royal house, regnant or deposed, in Europe are related to Europe's most prospering crown, Britain's. Among them is Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover, who is descended from King James I's granddaughter, the Electress Sophia of Hanover, and thereby legally entitled to ascend the British throne -provided that the 60-odd heirs who precede him all die. Last week, after a year of litigation, the British court of appeal ruled that Prince Ernest's ancestry entitles him to an even more useful privilege: that of British nationality. By implication...