Yet it is difficult to imagine it appearing several years earlier, even if it is only with the final phrase that the acculturational cycle is completed, namely that the importation of non-Haredi culture is “Haredized,” accorded a Haredi religious affect by the reference to rabbinic guidance.

The Lord Norths of our day form steel trusts and sugar trusts and all other kinds of trusts, and then claim — not the divine right of kingship, but — the divine right of dollarship to rule the earth.

virgin clay ― clay that has never been fired

[T]he owners of Doddington Hall, in Lincolnshire, have brought the folly into the 21st century, by building a 30ft pyramid in the grounds of the Elizabethan manor.