Word: boileau
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have usually been more serious than that, and often sound suspiciously perfect. Le style, c'est I'homme. General Robert E. Lee is said to have gone in 1870 with just the right military-metaphysical command: "Strike the tent!" The great 18th century classicist and prig Nicolas Boileau managed a sentence of wonderfully plump self-congratulation: "It is a consolation to a poet on the point of death that he has never written a line injurious to good morals...
...General Dynamics also involved executive-suite maneuvering. Last December, in the middle of the competitive fly-offs, Oliver C. Boileau, president of Boeing's aerospace division and the official directly responsible for the missile, resigned to become president of General Dynamics. He thus ended up on both sides of the race. One of the first congratulatory calls received at Boeing headquarters last week after the contract winner was announced was from the versatile Boileau...