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...Nineteen forty-eight, like 1968, was an annus mirabilis. Was 2000 an annus mirabilis? No. It should have been, but it lacked the energy to live up to its millennial expectations...
...then in 1991 Centesimus annus came in, a 25,000-word encyclical on the 100th anniversary of Leo XIII's Rerum novarum, the momentous condemnation of liberalism and materialism. Materialism meant then what it means today. By liberalism, Pope Leo had in mind contemporary movements that sought, in the name of "modernism," to free human beings from traditional attachments to church and family. In the centennial encyclical, Pope John Paul reiterated his frequent admonitions. The worker or manager who reports to duty at the shop every morning inflamed by the desire to make a better widget and sell more...
...returned to the forms of the ancien regime, giving a ball for foreign royals: seven Kings, 10 Queens, a grand duke, 26 princes and 27 princesses. The castle itself provided an apt symbol of royal rejuvenation. The Queen famously called 1992--a year of separations, divorce and scandal--her annus horribilis. The emotional low point may have come on Nov. 20, her 45th wedding anniversary, when Windsor Castle caught fire. Now, just in time for the 50th anniversary, the restoration of the castle has been completed. To regild the plaster, 500,000 sheets of gold leaf were used. Replacing...
...openness for years. Indeed, the Queen invented the "walkabout" early in her reign, and she sees more ordinary people on a regular basis than do most Cabinet ministers and newspaper editors. In 1992 she began paying taxes and reduced the number of royals who receive state funds (and the annus horribilis speech itself was a notable instance of candor). Nevertheless, the election of Blair and the death of Diana have intensified the process of bringing the royals closer to the people, and last week's events offered a striking case in point...
...year is still new, but 1996 is beginning to smell a lot like another annus horribilis for Queen Elizabeth. First there's what tabloids have dubbed the Seven Words War between PRINCESS DIANA and her sons' nanny, ALEXANDRA ("TIGGY") LEGGE-BOURKE. At an otherwise perfectly festive staff Christmas party--Prince Charles sprays Silly String on staff members, they dump glitter on him--Diana allegedly made so odious a remark to Tiggy that the nanny's lawyer sent warnings to the press not to repeat it, and the Queen had to be assured that the remark was untrue. Possibly...