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...moment they stared at each other, the Russians utterly astonished by the sudden apparition of this solitary horseman, gorgeous and glittering with gold." Then, "one of the officers. Prince Radzivil, recognized Lord Cardigan-they had met in London at dinners and balls-and . . . detached a troop of Cossacks . . . to capture him alive." Lord Cardigan was in no mood to be mauled by private soldiers. Wheeling his horse, he galloped back the way he had come. Back at base, he "immediately broke into accusations of ... Nolan's insubordination...
...HORSEMAN ON THE ROOF (426 pp.) -Jean Giono-Knopf...
Much of this view of life and death is as old as the Stoics and as new as the Existentialists. Where Jean Giono differs from both Marcus Aurelius and Jean-Paul Sartre is in his addiction to verbal color and sensuous imagery. The Horseman on the Roof is an orgy of symbolic corpses, stinks, carrion crows and flesh-eating nightingales, interspersed with involved philosophical breedings and brisked up with epigrams ("Cavalrymen like women to scream"; "I'm afraid of grocers when they have guns"). But. like most contemporary philosophical novelists, Giono makes no real effort to be clear...
From the fort, as it had 150 years ago, came a roll of drums to halt the fighting momentarily. The "French" commander sent out a new mount and the general's compliments on the horseman's bravery. Then the drums rolled again, the' battle was resumed, the fort captured...
...medicine balls with members of the Cabinet and the Supreme Court. Franklin Roosevelt and John Quincy Adams swam for their health. George Washington preferred riding. Jefferson detested all exercise, relaxed with his violin. Theodore Roosevelt, the most active President, was an enthusiastic wrestler, jujitsu expert, big-game hunter, tennist, horseman and boxer. One of his favorite forms of exercise was point-to-point hiking, which sometimes involved swimming Rock Creek or the Potomac River. "If we swam the Potomac," T.R. recalled in his autobiography, "we usually took off our clothes. I remember one such occasion when the French ambassador, Jusserand...