Word: adolphus
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Emily Levine as Lady Britomart, and Hamilton Corbett as Barbara's professor-fiancee, are the best of the leads. Miss Levine's portrayal of the imperious lady who has her son transfer a cushion from chair to chair as she moves is clear and consistent. Corbett's Adolphus Cusins believably combines modesty, erudition, cynicism, and animal...
People of the Book tells not one but two parallel stories. The first follows the public acts and private thoughts of the two great Protestant leaders of the Thirty Years War, the brilliant commander King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and his equally brilliant chief minister, Axel Oxenstierna. The second story dives into the ebb and flow of destruction across the shattered principalities of Central Europe to follow the fates of a young man, Lars Larsen, and the lovely little sister he is trying to bring up and lead to safety. The two stories join only at one point, where Oxenstierna...
...others: Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Caesar, Sweden's Gustavus Adolphus, France's Marshal Turenne and Frederick the Great...
...Tough Humility." At the heart of Leonhardt's book, though, lies the schizophrenia of a Germany divided-affluent and self-satisfied to the west of the Iron Curtain, lean and paranoid to the east. Earlier conquerors-the Romans, the armies of Gustavus Adolphus in the Thirty Years' War, the Napoleonic French-dropped their Iron Curtains between north and south. Over the centuries there developed a dour, methodical, Protestant North, and an affable, beer-drinking, Catholic South. The East-West split, Leonhardt argues, has cut this historical Germany into quarters and generated an "Athens v. Sparta" complex that most...
...ADOLPHUS W. HAWKINS JR. Richmond...