Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...common one in Malaya, and they are not related. When both were law students in London, friends had difficulty with their honorifics-the newly elected Paramount Ruler is Tuanku (applied only to rulers and sometimes their eldest sons), while the present Chief Minister is Tengku, which means a royal prince...
...Yadin. The answer is to be found in the similarities between the theology of the people Paul was addressing (as it can be deduced from Paul's arguments) and the known theology of the Dead Sea sect. The Essenes believed in the ascendancy of the priestly over the royal Messiah, and Paul emphasized Jesus' priestly qualities. The Essenes set great store by the apocalyptic role of the angels, and Paul lays emphasis on Jesus' superiority over angels...
...simple Louis chafed under the restrictions of the formidable Versailles etiquette. And the lively Queen was bored to death by ceremonials so hopelessly elaborate that it was impossible for her to drink a glass of cold water: the royal glass was obliged to pass through so many hands that it was always tepid when it reached her lips...
This is what Historian André Castelot chose to do in Queen of France. His biography of Marie Antoinette scarcely hints at the desperate conditions that bred the French Revolution and doomed the King and Queen. Castelot is interested only in the Queen, whose flawless complexion, royal bearing and gilded extravagance made her the peerless symbol of aristocratic absolutism. For a symbol is all that Marie Antoinette ever was; and even if she had never squandered millions on jewelry, chateaux, make-believe villages and elaborate carnivals, the deluge would still have come, forced from below by sufferings as real...
...marriage and father an heir. In Marie Antoinette he had found a tender, sympathetic wife who, though apparently never in love with him, did all she could to aid his efforts and alleviate his shame. Already half mother, half schoolteacher, adolescent Marie Antoinette began slowly to civilize her royal booby. And when at last a minor surgical operation ended their painful frustration, Louis XVI was not only devoted to his helpmate but stood in awe of her brisk self-confidence...