Word: byronic
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...Byron may have inspired the image of the archromantic. But it was François-René de Chateaubriand-writer, politician and Olympian lover-who lived it. Born in 1768 to a minor Breton nobleman, he came of age with the French Revolution. By the time he was 24, the Chevalier Chateaubriand had already journeyed to America in search of noble savages and exotic flora...
Later, as a novelist, he helped fuel the age of French romanticism; as a polemicist he daringly attacked Napoleon; as a politician he served as Louis XVIII's foreign minister. En route, he out-Byroned Byron; few of Europe's great beauties-or, possibly, his sister-could resist the arrogant, magnetic aristocrat...
Christopher Byron's Essay, "What's Behind the Dollar Debacle" [March 20] is certainly on target. America's standard of living has cost us more than we realize. It's obvious that, as Byron mentions, we all look to the President for results. However, it is the President who has been looking to us to adjust our attitudes and lifestyle. We Americans should stop passing the buck and realize that we have a problem that we must solve...
...alliance? Fortunately, no one is yet asking that fundamental question, and Washington had better make sure it does not come up. Today, as always, the American dollar remains the worldwide symbol of the U.S. itself; if the currency is weak and friendless, the nation eventually will be too. - Christopher Byron...
...each pass of the shuttle. Babbage planned to use the same technique to program his machine; instead of the positions of threads, the holes in his cards would represent the mathematical commands to the machine. Wrote Babbage's mathematically knowledgeable friend Lady Lovelace, daughter of the poet Lord Byron: "We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves...