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...symbol been entirely shorn of substance. Any Prime Minister has to take seriously the monarch's right to advise and warn. Though Anthony Eden ignored Elizabeth's judgment that Britain should not make its disastrous 1956 Suez intervention, and was himself ruined by that adventure, the Queen strongly influenced Harold Wilson's decision to stop short of sending troops in countering Rhodesia's declaration of independence in 1965. Comparable governmental decisions have reflected the judgment of the Dutch and Belgian monarchs, and may possibly be seen in Spain in the future. In any event, both the ceremonial and less apparent...
...centuries since Piranesi have demystified both nature and the past modern explorers have excavated the Campo Vaccino (Cow Field), restored the temples and the Colosseum. The Tiber Island has been firmly established as dry land; the Arch of Titus shorn of vines and bushes. Levit's photographs testify to the knowledge and understanding we've gained--and the drama lost. Piranesi, in one of his more imaginative moments, etched a smart temple at Tivoli, surrounded by figures in various melodramatic poses, stalking the ruined stairs, lurking behind the columns. One dark figure assumes a Byronic posture in the doorway...
...price of many arid hours on the banks of the Charles. And then there are absolutely wrong-headed but scintillating scholars like radical Duncan Kennedy at the Law School. Fellows like Duncan may have got it all backwards philosophically, but they know their subjects and their radicalism has not shorn them of the old-fashioned art of civilized conversation...
...what if the Joe Garagiola-Curt Gowdy sports network could pan its cameras so as to make his locks bounce as he slid into third. To me his shorn head will always be the symbol of baseball's bad side. Hell, I'm not asking for a Ted Simmons or even an Oscar "High Hat" Gamble -- but Pete, cut us some slack. Let it grow...
...that has slashed, torn and crushed not only nations, but entire continents, to make them "safe for democracy." You have to wade through some 600 pages of this book to grasp what it is saying: that the United States maintains its "allies" through massive bribery, extortion and assassination; that shorn of its exotic mythology, spying is a disgusting business, that the CIA is responsible for murdering hundreds of thousands of flesh and blood human beings whose only crime was to seek independence from the United States...