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...time is a hundred years after the Norman Conquest, and Anouilh roots his conflict in the blood enmity between Henry, great-grandson of William the Conqueror, and his Saxon subject. Henry sneers at Becket as a "collaborator," but in fact the king is sycophant to the courtier, whose quiet contempt holds his master eternally in thrall...
...Bullock's view, Hitler was the ultimate barbarian, a political genius without the scruples of a Caesar or the ideas of a Napoleon, who gave the world a megalomaniacal warning of his plan of conquest, then proceeded unswervingly to carry it out. Revised and reissued, Bullock's portrait today risks being taken for just another book about Hitler. In point of fact it is now, as it was originally, the standard against which the others are to be measured...
...static-filter that he invented let Vincent re-record with good clarity everything from William Jennings Bryan's cross-of-gold speech to Big Ben tolling in the 20th century to Robert E. Peary tersely describing his 1909 conquest of the North Pole. Eeriest of all: Trumpeter Kenneth Landfrey's hair-raising bugle call for the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava in 1854. Landfrey restaged it for Edison in 1890, using the same bugle that also screeched Wellington's troops on to victory at Waterloo...
...told the forum, "gets you coming or going." Perhaps he is painfully aware of the elements in his own character that he condemns in others; his complexity is elusive. "I yield to no one in my cotempt for the young American male, with his need to make a conquest; to prove himself," Goodman says. Yet much of his own need for contact takes the form of personal conquest...
...advanced forms of nonearth life," the scholars emphasize the need for setting a law-abiding example. They make a sobering reminder of European excesses during the conquest of the newly discovered Americas. Any four-eyed visitors from Epsilon Eridani might well turn out to be ahead of mankind in technology, say the space lawyers; earth may yet become someone else's new world to colonize...