Word: hamilton
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...Died. Hamilton Fish Armstrong, 80, vigorous, nonpartisan editor of Foreign Affairs for 44 years; after a long illness; in Manhattan. An urbane, scholarly New Yorker, Armstrong joined Foreign Affairs at its founding in 1922 and served as its editor from 1928 until his retirement two years ago. Although the circulation of his quarterly has never exceeded 73,000, it has long been a prestigious forum reflecting the viewpoints of statesmen and political commentators around the world. Foreign Affairs published articles by heads of governments as well as their critics, and in its 1947 article by "X" (State Department Planner George...
Honor prevails. "I don't want only half a man, with the better half pining to be out at sea," Lady Hamilton finally decides. Nelson goes to sea and the fleet triumphs, but in the process Nelson is killed. He leaves Lady Hamilton as a "bequest to the nation," so that she may be officially provided for during the rest of her life. An epilogue provides the information that Nelson's dying request was not honored; Lady Hamilton perishes in poverty in Calais. Scenes of her final days would have been a good deal more dramatic than...
Finch and Jackson are clever enough to fight their way through the musty veneer. Finch is both salty and regal, gently flamboyant without ever becoming grandiloquent, a trap that Rattigan's script sets for him at every turn. Because Jackson is an eminently subtle actress, her Emma Hamilton is not merely a creature of fire, but a vulnerability imperfectly concealed beneath layers of scar tissue. The supporting actors are stalwart, except for Michael Jayston, who suffers from a kind of congenital insipidity...
There is no one named Napoleon in Sobel's history. Aaron Burr does not shoot Hamilton. There is no Civil War, although the C.N.A. and the United States of Mexico fight the Rocky Mountain War in 1845-52. Karl Marx remains an obscure German professor, but Bernard Kramer, an inspired monopolist, builds a business empire that becomes a world power by the middle of the 20th century...
...Adams, Patrick Henry and Tom Paine, and the sentencing and life imprisonment of the bumbler Washington. Sobel, professor of history at New College, Hempstead, N.Y., goes on to describe the formation under the Crown's benevolent authority of the Confederation of North America with Burgoyne as first viceroy. Hamilton, Madison, Nathanael Green and the other irreconcilable dissidents lead thousands of former rebels on what was to be remembered as the Wilderness Walk. It was an exodus to the new and forbidding lands of the Southwest, where, in 1782, the survivors founded the new nation of Jefferson. There follows, naturally...