Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...respect for cold facts. His tirelessness in tracking down historical obscurities (he is probably the world's No. 1 literary detective), his fearlessness in publishing what he finds, have resulted in some shocking reversals of U. S. cultural myths. In two of his books, Roberts has heroized Traitor Benedict Arnold. This week the same qualities resulted in another first-class historical shocker. Oliver Wiswell is a sustained and uncompromising report of the American Revolution from the Tory viewpoint. It will start Union Now advocates turning handsprings, may well set the D. A. R. to plaiting nooses...
...reminiscences, written in 1814. Young Roger Lamb met a recruiting officer in a public house and, several drinks later, found himself sworn in for a long stretch of barrack-room life. In 1776 he was shipped overseas to the rebellious New World. There he defended Montreal from Benedict Arnold's militia, lived with the Indians of the Six Nations to learn wilderness warfare, marched with Burgoyne to recapture Crown Point and Ticonderoga, surrendered honorably to General Gates at Saratoga...
...back to the soil-but not so far back as to avoid rural electrification. To this thesis Kaufman & Hart now devote their practiced wits. Ernest Truex plays the part of a little man who buys a Pennsylvania farm where Washington supposedly bedded (actually it turns out to have been Benedict Arnold). The acid Jean Dixon is his wife, forced among other pastoral ordeals to watch a well-drilling operation strike successive layers of mud and eventually a cemetery ("Anyone we know?" she cries...
When Italy declared war on the Allies almost four months ago, Lorenzo Perosi, director of the Sistine Chapel Choir, locked himself up with a project in the Monastery of St. Benedict, 40 miles from Rome. Last week Musician Perosi had completed his self-appointed task, and waited for the Axis (or British) generals to finish theirs. Ready for the proclamation of peace was a Perosi-composed "grandiose Te Deum...
...loving Briton Burgoyne finally dug in near Saratoga, put his women in a safe place and tried to knock Gates's Army out of his way. Soundly defeated in one of the world's decisive battles (largely through the tactical resource of Gates's brilliant subordinate, Benedict Arnold) he had to hand over his sword. Thus ended the only invasion down the Hudson Valley that had even the faintest chance of substantial success. A new invader would advance with motor transport instead of bateaux, with tanks and aircraft instead of Indian allies. The chances of whether...