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...place is India. An unofficial royal family that President Reagan aptly compared to the Adams family in the U.S. and that Indians liken to the Mogul emperors and maharajahs of ages past, the House of Nehru has reigned over independent India in one almost unbroken dynastic line, passing the scepter down from one generation to the next. By now the system of one-family rule has become so firmly entrenched that the newsmagazine India Today calls India "a democratic monarchy...
...number composing them may be, the fewer will be the men who will in fact direct their proceedings." Madison went on to observe that in the earliest republics, a single orator or an artful statesman was generally seen to rule with as complete a sway as if a scepter had been placed in his single hand...
...Wood's sister Nan and a Cedar Rapids dentist named McKeeby. The subject of American Gothic is in fact a small-town Midwesterner and his unmarried daughter, and once this is seen, the details of the painting fall into shape, as Wood meant them: the pitchfork becomes a scepter of paternal authority, a weapon for fending off suitors and perpetuating spinsterhood; its shape is echoed in the limp seams of the man's overalls, foreshadowing his own masculine debility; and so forth...
...Criminals now rule the streets of our cities and towns, and the handgun is their scepter," he said, voicing support for a Senate bill which would ban the sale of handguns with barrel length less than three inches...
After Galileo announced the wonders revealed by his new optical marvel -among them the mountains and valleys of the moon-many of his contemporaries were overwhelmed. The great German astronomer Johannes Kepler called Galileo's spy glass "more precious than any scepter! He who holds thee in his right hand is a true king, a world ruler." With the space telescope, his successors may be moved to echo that exultation. -By Frederic Golden