Word: reigning
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...theatrical experience he has fashioned is part religious pageant, part sermon, part military panoply and part celebration of the reverberant power of language -- of vows, of curses, of omens. Above all it glories in the eternal reign of the storyteller, whose chronicles outlast the might of the captains and kings and, yes, even gods who figure in his tales. At one point a deity confronts the poet who is purportedly narrating the epic and demands, "Vyasa, which of us has invented the other?" That is art at its most self- aggrandizing. Yet how indeed does man come to comprehend anything...
...elections that week. Journalism, as it has been said, is just the first draft of history. Sometimes, though, historians have similar troubles with the second draft. Writing his authoritative chronicle of Rome in about A.D. 100, Tacitus made only a passing reference to the Christians, minor troublemakers during the reign of Nero...
Never before during his reign has John Paul heard a more candid, widely publicized presentation on church discord from a group of bishops. And never before had U.S. Catholics -- priests and laity alike -- been told so plainly by the Pontiff that they should not consider themselves good Catholics unless they accept all of the church's teachings. "Dissent from church doctrine remains what it is: dissent," he declared. "As such it may not be proposed or received on an equal footing with the church's authentic teaching...
Yovicsin's reign was interrupted in November of1963, when the assassination of President John F.Kennedy '40 led to a one-week postponement of theHarvard-Yale game. Harvard football mourned itslost teammate both on and off the field, as theCrimson went down to Yale, 20-6, the followingSaturday...
Some of that intrigue almost seems inspired by the early reign of Louis XIV of France. Mswati, formerly known as Prince Makhosetive, officially took the throne in April of last year. For the four previous years, Swaziland had been ruled by a regent, initially Queen Dzeliwe, one of Sobhuza's 50 or more wives, though not the mother of the current King. In 1983 Prince Mfanasibili, a powerful member of the Liqoqo, or royal advisory council, masterminded Dzeliwe's ouster and replaced her with Ntombi, mother of the young King-to-be. Mfanasibili then talked the new Queen regent into...