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...that any Augustus can create a Vergil; any man with sufficient money, he thought, can underwrite a poet to sing his praises. Napoleon also proved that his own thesis is wrong, for what poet created an epic about the Corsican dictator? What Bonaparte did not realize is that an emperor who would create a Vergil must have not only the wealth, but also the stature, of an Augustus. Great poetry can only be written about great topics, topics which are common and central to the experience of all mankind. Any lesser theme is doomed by its nature to failure...
Some day, somebody like Ralph Ginzburg will publish the best promotions of Ralph Ginzburg. It will include blurbs for Eros, the hard-cover quarterly "devoted to the joys of love"; Fact, the magazine that would "not hesitate to ask 'Where are the emperor's clothes?' "; and Avant-Garde, the journal pledged to generate "an orgasm of the mind."* And it will certainly include Ginzburg's pitches for his newest publishing venture, a consumer newsletter called Moneysworth...
...horseback found themselves hemmed in by hordes of peasants wearing the loose-fitting robes called galabias. It took 45 minutes for the cortege to move 100 yards. French Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas fought to maintain his balance and at the same time save diminutive (5 ft. 2 in.) Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia from being trampled. Security men decided that the scene was unsafe and urged the official mourners to leave. Dour Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin was whisked away to the Soviet embassy. Jordan's King
...boutiques in the basement of the Tokyo Prince Hotel hired a hand last week whose references needed no checking. Mrs. Takako Shimazu, 31, the new "salon adviser," traces her lineage to no less a luminary than a sun; her father is Japan's Emperor Hirohito. The pretty ex-princess (who lost her title when she married a commoner) is not exactly a newcomer to the rat race. Ten years ago, she turned a fast yen as star of a deejay show on Tokyo radio called-not surprisingly-Princess Time...
...litany of irony and error is unending. Emperor Hirohito is outmaneuvered by his military cadre; President Roosevelt is crossed off the confidential list because the generals distrust his advisers. Bureaucracy and blind tradition amplify each error beyond calculation. No single man can be blamed, and no villains or heroes emerge from this foundering, slipshod-and hypnotic-drama. That judgment must hold not only for those who lived it but also for those who filmed it. Three directors, one American (Richard Fleischer) and two Japanese, Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku, have managed to move crowds and planes, but not the viewer...