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...been seeing behind his wife's back) does not fit the definition of "All the News That's Fit to Print?" As Proudhon remarked, "The fecundity of the unexpected far exceeds the prudence of statesmen." Suddenly a bumper crop of The Unexpected (including disclosure that New York's Roundhead moralist had been committing adultery) had turned Giuliani's bracing Senate race-to-the-death against Hillary Clinton into something like "Days of Our Lives." Soap opera alters history. Everyone except Rudy says Rudy will drop out of the race now. Hillary, whose political career seems to take strange, triumphant energy...
Spectacles like this undoubtedly led some people to question the purpose of the holiday, and, with the rise of Puritanism, Christmas's very existence was threatened. Regarding the good cheer as "pagan" and "Popish," England's Roundhead Parliament in 1643 abolished the observance of the day. The King protested and mobs attacked those who opened their shops. But Parliament adopted strong measures, and for the next 12 years Christmas as a general English holiday ceased...
...most dramatic racing duel in recent memory. Lauda is a methodical Austrian whose technical brilliance and unflappable personality had brought stability-and a championship-back to Ferrari after a decade of decline. Hunt is the dashing Englishman who brought the verve of a swashbuckler to staid Team McLaren. Roundhead and Cavalier, a rivalry that seemed fated...
Kennedy's quixotic bill is an effort to legislate virtue - like the Volstead Act. The truth bill might lower the general level of mendacity in Washington, though the cautionary example of Watergate and the Roundhead vigilance around the capital these days should be warning enough. But if the law were enacted, could a President bluff another power by announcing a course of action he had no intention of taking...
Perks and Palaces. As between Cavaliers and Roundheads, this is a portrait of Cromwell that no Roundhead sympathizer could fault. When Cromwell puts a thousand innocent men, women, children and priests to the sword at Drogheda, the author tells us he was in a fit of passion. Did he smash and savage churches in England? Well, choirs and pageantry and opulent vestments outraged his Puritan conscience...