Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...politics is played like karate (a sport at which Constantine excels). Jordan's Hussein is doing his best to stave off antimonarchist rioters instigated by his leftist neighbors, Syria and the United Arab Republic. Only last week the new African nation Burundi ended the 400-year-long tribal rule of King Ntare...
...idea persisted to the threshold of modern times that the monarch was a divine personage with magic powers, including the gift of healing by touch. Belief in the king's divine curative powers vanished as surely as belief in the king's divine right to rule-at least in the West. Today's monarchs can be roughly divided into three types: Europe's chairman-of-the-board king, who presides over his country but is not its chief executive officer; the tribal king of Africa and the Middle East, who most of the time still really...
...take the institution is provided by the earnest current debate on whether Prince Charles should go to a university or not. Most people nowadays seem to prefer an educated monarch, but some feel that too much learning is dangerous for a ruler whose job, after all, is not to rule. Recalling that Elizabeth II was poorly educated when she came to the throne, Journalist Iain Hamilton observes: "She was good on a horse, though; and we have Ben Jonson's word for it that princes learn no art truly but the art of horsemanship." As for Charles, it would...
...more serious charge against monarchy than costliness is that it keeps people in tutelage and prevents them from learning how to rule themselves. This may be true in autocratic kingdoms, but it is scarcely so under constitutional monarchy. According to a widespread psychiatric view, constitutional monarchs represent parents who are always reassuringly present without, however, curbing a people's freedom. They thus embody the continuity and unity that is lacking in so much of modern life. Shorn now of the military ambitions and political self-seeking that made so many of them the scourge of the world, they seem...
...seats alone could muster the majority required by the constitution to install a Chancellor. While the Christian Democrats quarreled over whom they should nominate, the Social Democrats and Free Democrats began negotiating to form a coalition of their own to end the Christian Democrats' 17 years of uninterrupted rule. Desperate for a solution, Erhard's party decided to throw the choice open to a vote by its Bundestag members. On the third ballot, with the decisive backing of Strauss's Bavarian Christian Social Union, the decision went to the man who seemed best fitted to pull the divided party?...