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Every normal Norman, Parisian planners calculated, would be delighted to help pay for such a triumphal occasion. They were wrong. Nestled amid the knotty hedgerows and gnarled apple orchards of the lower Seine Valley lies the village of Veauville-les-Baons (pop. 353), which has not changed much since William's day-and to some extent, holds him responsible. According to Jean Comps, 54, village schoolmaster and official secretary (also renowned for his fine home-made Calvados), the liege lord of Normandy in 1060 forced Veauville to ante up an annual ten gold talents to the nearby abbey...
...part of this book, Historian Richard Hofstadter (The Age of Reform) briskly traces the history of political paranoia in the U.S., and wittily examines the political pathology that produced and sustained the legend of the Great Conspiracy. He concludes, somewhat magisterially, that the nomination of Senator Goldwater was the "triumphal moment of pseudo-conservatism in American politics," and finds that the ironic result was that Goldwater's "campaign broke the back of our postwar practical conservatism...
...council, were considered almost an underground minority-such as U.S. Jesuit John Courtney Murray, whose theories on church-state relations provided background for the religious-liberty statement. In the wake of this progressive victory has come what Dominican Edward Schillebeeckx of Nijmegen University calls "the triumph of anti-triumphal ism"-the rejection by the council of the world-hating, anathema-hurling Counter Reformation conviction that Catholicism alone possessed the truth of life. In contrast to past councils, which devoted much of their time consigning to eternal flames those who did not agree with majority decisions, Vatican II issued no such...
...attitude toward a complex, pluralistic world. At its birth, the church was a beacon of moral light that stood apart from the Roman society in which it flourished. For more than 1,000 years after Constantine, it was a power within society, acquiring some of the pride, intolerance and triumphal spirit that is part of power's corruption. At the Reformation and after, the church reacted badly to the loss of its claim to be God's only spokesman and clung to its shrunken patrimony of power in ways that justified the exasperation of those who stood outside...
...national hero. Then Snell began to think about quitting-while he was ahead. He wanted to spend time with his young wife Sally and at his job in public relations for Rothmans cigarette company in New Zealand. So last fall, he decided to top off his triumphal career with one last world tour...