Word: herold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DOWNS HEROLD Bradford...
Mistress to an Age, by J. Christopher Herold. A topnotch biography of Mme. de Stael, who was equally at home in the drawing rooms, council rooms and bedrooms of Revolutionary France...
...Venusberg. Some of her lovers ran successively, some concurrently. Some remained hers for months, others for years. Author Benjamin (Adolphe) Constant was in Germaine's toils for almost a quarter-century. By middle age, she ruled, in Author Herold's words, "like Venus over the damned souls in the Venusberg, like Calypso over shipwrecked travelers, like Circe over her menagerie...
...Author Herold (editor of the Stanford University Press) tells it, in his Book-of-the-Month biography, Germaine espoused the French Revolution with such enthusiasm that she became a behind-the-scenes power at the very moment that her banker father was tumbling to his fall. In the days of the Terror, she enthusiastically switched sides and saved many an innocent from the guillotine. Long accustomed by then to swaying men, she hoped to make a good democrat out of Napoleon, but he snubbed her. Among other things, he resented her trying to interview him when he was "naked...
Moderate Goals. Asks Author Herold: "What was the nature of the brilliance Germaine had radiated?" It was neither beauty nor tact nor intellect. As Herold sees it, what made Germaine unique was that "she sought essentially moderate goals by the most passionate means." She "exalted" love; yet "the goal was not the agonizing passion she knew but the quiet happiness that eluded her." She pursued ideals with equal passion, but always with the hope that she might "agree peacefully" with enthusiasts whose ideals were different. Thus, concludes Biographer Herold in one of the odd conclusions-of-the-month...