Word: etonisms
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...matter of vectors and the measurement of force. The irrational must be made rational before men can feel themselves in control of events. Perhaps that is also why war is so often portrayed as a game or sporting event, the battlefield as an extension of the playing fields of Eton. Nixon the poker player is seen raising the stakes; General Vo Nguyen Giap, the Communists' superquarterback, is seen fading back for a last-second touchdown pass...
...searching athlete, lies with the coach, who generally believes that "a truly good athlete is also a redblooded, clean-living, truth-telling, prepared patriot." Those who still embrace this simplistic view, the psychologists conclude, "undoubtedly believe that the wars of England were indeed won on the playing fields of Eton...
...Duke of Wellington may have believed that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton. Napoleon was sure that the French General Staff had failed him. Sergei Bondarchuk has another idea. Though the English and French exchanged considerable fire and shed small oceans of blood, they had very little to do with the outcome. The beau stratagem was performed by old General Blücher and his vindictive Prussians. They and they alone are responsible for the outcome in Waterloo, or, as its subtitle might read, History Revised for Anglophobes...
...keeping with King Mahendra's desire to modernize the ancient kingdom from the top down, Birendra has been educated not only at Eton and Tokyo University but also at Harvard, where, according to his official Nepalese biography, he picked up "exciting food for thought." To get through his wedding, however, what the young prince needed most was stamina. First there were two days of elaborate Vedic ceremonies. On the day of the wedding itself, Prince Birendra mounted a silver howdah atop an elephant at the Royal Palace, then led a two-mile procession through the capital. At a courtyard...
...Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert McCormick: "Stubborn, slow-thinking and bellicose, with a definite anti-British bias, which rumor attributes to the fact that he is still resentful of the canings he received whilst a schoolboy at Eton...