Word: sovereignity
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...been outlawed by the Founding Fathers (who nevertheless insist on being known by capital letters). Human nature and affectation being what they are, we have naturally produced a nobility of our own, somewhat more transient although hardly less worthy than the British kind. Their lordships were created by the Sovereign, ours by Sam Goldwyn. Theirs try to be seen with the Queen, ours with Joan Rivers. What our crowd lacks in gravitas, it makes up in laughs. Nor has it produced a noticeably poorer class of peer. Both seem equally to enjoy the company of Koo Stark...
...thin ice begins to crack underfoot as Koch goes on, without any explicit analysis, to invoke the names of Kant, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Mill. He attempts to paraphrase this assemblage of Moral Reasoning luminaries: "natural law properly authorizes the sovereign to take life in order to vindicate justice." Koch's mistranslation of social contractarian arguments looks more like totalitarianism than democracy...
...called an "arch-artist" by George Bernard Shaw and "that sovereign of insufferables" by Ambrose Bierce. In The God of Mirrors, Oscar Wilde qualifies for both titles, reducing every crisis to an epigram. Some of them are prophetic. In Dorian Gray, "the bad will suffer. The good will be rewarded. That . . . is what fiction means." Some are merely contrary: "It is always an advantage not to have received a good education." As Wilde arcs over London, he decides that the difference between true love and caprice is that caprice lasts a little longer, and that is his undoing. His infatuation...
...clear to me that the question of abdication has been ruled out totally," says Lacey. "Charles may be unhappy in his role, but it is the function of the British royal family to express the intangibles of life, including stability. Since modern British monarchs have no executive role, the sovereign has reverted back to the primitive and magical role, symbolic of society's continuing...
...consumption of 14,000 bbl. a day (Iran, Algeria and Libya supply the rest), a new promise of Soviet support was hardly a major revelation. But Ortega was full of bravado as he climbed out of an East German airplane onto the tarmac in Managua. "Our country is sovereign, not one more state of the United States," he said. "We don't need permission to go to Moscow, Paris, Brazil or Montevideo...