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...days of Louis XIV, a summons to the King's court brought the men and women of consequence tumbling out of the boudoirs and the countinghouses and off the battlefields for the required rituals of obeisance and jollity that the Sun King needed for self-assurance. Louis, it was said, worshipped God, and all the others worshipped...
This presidential court has a loftier purpose than that of Louis XIV. Its entry requirements have more to do with ability than blood. But there is the same gratification that men and women who run things have always got from being with each other, far from the rest of the world that may resent them or cling to them. There is much that is illusory in these moments of soft music, laughter and warm toasts. In the glow of the White House's East Room or at the State Department's Benjamin Franklin Room, with its sweeping view...
...from articles and editorials to cartoons, photos and even advertisements. This further muzzling of the press may have been in response to a few cases of surreptitious sniping at the government's measures; in Kerala, for example, one paper ran a cartoon depicting Mrs. Gandhi dressed as Louis XIV with a caption reading "I am India." The censors also closely monitored the dispatches of foreign newsmen. Last week the government summarily expelled Washington Post Correspondent Lewis M. Simons, who had stirred official ire by reporting that the army did not solidly back Mrs. Gandhi...
Vischer says that King Louis XIV's purported remark, "I am the state," would "hardly be an exaggeration on the lips of the Pope," who is an absolute monarch in his postage-stamp realm. Vischer also argues that Vatican City's existence as a sovereign state limits the church's readiness to support anti-establishment political movements...
Moliere's satire on hypocrisy--the most obvious threat to the formal social structure of France under Louis XIV, where freedom and order could be mixed equally as long as everyone played fair--is given a glorious vitality by the Adams House Drama Society's cast. Where Moliere caricatures human folly to make it more obvious and more laughable to his audience (so that they might then recognize it in themselves), the Adams House cast, under the direction of James Ulmer, manages a careful balance between exaggeration and realism that is the perfect medium for Moliere's message...