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...choice was one of the party's younger but more impressive figures, 50-year-old Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler, the able and coldly aloof Chancellor of the Exchequer. So-called theoretician of the Tory Party, Rab Butler was born in India, the son of a British civil servant, became a Cambridge don after chalking up a brilliant scholastic record there, married the heiress of the wealthy Courtauld textile empire, entered Parliament at 26. He has built up a strong party following among the younger, more liberal Conservatives, acquired impressive public backing with his two austerity-relaxing budgets...
...Dodds, such service is of a very special sort. Though every Princeton man is supposed to emerge at least part public servant, he gets his training indirectly. To a degree, thinks Dodds, in trying to ape the sciences, the social sciences have given away a lot of ground they shouldn't have. "We turn to the humanities for knowledge and wisdom about our spiritual aspirations and our human cravings for justice, beauty, honor, integrity...
...Servant of Men. "These specifications raise no question about the nature of man or the purpose of government ... The specifications settle these questions firmly ... It is the fact of God and God-given rights that debases American government into a servant rather than a master of men. It is the fact about the true equality of men that clashes critically with the 'equalitarianism' of the challenging Marxists ... The equality of men is before God and the law. Beyond that point each man is personally, naturally, and eternally distinguished from every other...
Crowning. The Crown itself sparkled in the candlelight. The Archbishop of Canterbury moved to the high altar, clasped it in both hands and raised it before him. "Oh God, the Crown of the Faithful," he prayed, "bless, we beseech Thee, this Crown, and so sanctify Thy servant Elizabeth, upon whose head Thou dost place it . . . that she may be filled by Thine abundant grace, with all princely virtue." With the Crown borne before him, Canterbury approached the Queen. He raised it high above her, paused for all to see, and placed it on her head...
Thagaard's opponents do not deny his ability and honesty. Tall, thin, with straggly white hair and a face as rugged as Norway's coastline, he is a dedicated public servant. He spends long working days in a decrepit old rocking chair at a big, flattop desk, carries away stacks of homework every night. He earns less than $5,000 yearly, lives in a small, unpretentious flat in Oslo, rides buses and streetcars, and does not own an automobile. His only relaxation is attending opening nights with his wife, a theater critic, whom he married...