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Grove's abdication of his throne also loses some drama from the fact that in recent years his public image has become that of a long-range thinker rather than a hands-on manager.
In a dangerously cantilevered sentence of the kind that Steiner does at times resort to, he asserts: "[I]t may well be that the ethnic-demographic elements in the successive waves of American settlement are 'Darwinian negative,' that they embody the brilliant survival of an anti-historical species, where 'anti-historianism' would entail an abdication from those adaptive mechanisms of tragic intellectuality, of ideological 'caring' (Kierkegaard's, Heidegger's word Sorge ) which are indispensable to cultural creation of the first rank."
Their abdication deprives the rest of the nation of the chance to hear and participate in debate.
Before the diary was found, Japanese historians believed that the emperor had at least contemplated abdication.
It was here in 1952 that King Farouk signed his abdication before boarding his yacht for exile in Italy.