Word: interregnum
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...years of watching prewar Leftism crumble under the shock of totalitarian war, Hungarian-born Author Arthur Koestler (Darkness at Noon) has learned to lift himself above the battle. Last week in the New York Times, he wrote that the great events of today are only events in an "interregnum," that an age is dying. Said Koestler...
...next decades will be a time of distress and of gnashing of teeth. We shall live in the hollow of the historial wave . . . [but] the day is not far when the present interregnum will end and a new horizontal ferment will arise ... an irresistible global mood, a spiritual springtide like early Christianity or the Renaissance. It will probably mark the end of our historical era, the period which began with Galileo, Newton and Columbus, the age of scientific formulation ... of the ascendance of reason over spirit...
...dopesters who had earlier laid their bets on 47-year-old Gene Holman for president (TIME, Jan. 4) these two moves looked like a logical interregnum-for Elder Statesman Gallagher has only three years to go before reaching Standard's retirement age (65). As if to underline that conclusion Standard's directors last week refrained from moving any other top-notcher up to fill the post of chairman of the board...
...Interregnum. From the moment when Cardinal Pacelli declared the Pope truly dead, a new order, rigidly governed by ancient protocol, was in force in the Vatican. Cardinal Pacelli, now Camerlengo (Chamberlain) of the Holy Roman Church, was given the Ring of the Fisherman from the Pope's finger. Placed in a red silk bag, the ring was later broken, as symbol that there was an interregnum in the affairs of the Church. Aside from Cardinal Penitentiary Lauri, in charge of the Pope's funeral, and Camerlengo Pacelli, administrator of the Church and head of the approaching conclave...
...Navy, Air and Munitions Ministries. For the first time in the Civil War, all the reins of defense and attack were thus in the hands of one man. Spunky General Jose Miaja ("The Savior of Madrid") reassumed civil and military control of the capitol after a four-week interregnum by a Civilian Council. The reinstatement of Miaja, famed for his valor and firmness, was a popular, shrewd move...