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...things considered but one, Tufts should have its collective head handed to it today. But that one thing is the Crimson's own imp of the perverse that seems to goad the team into winning the big ones and losing the little ones. Yovicsin has that in mind--and so does Tufts.BOBBY LEO (15) weaves between tacklers on a first-half run against Holy Cross. Leo gained 145 yards and scored two touchdowns...
...idolatrous race of men. He is God's angry man, a prophet of the wrath to come who screams with infernal glee as he opens the vials of vituperation on the heads of humankind. His passions are scoriae, his imagination a holocaust. His wit is an indentured imp that leaps to any bidding-it can tickle the funny bone, attack with acid, fry living flesh on a deadpan, reach down the throat of a corpse and come up with a ghastly guffaw. His language is bare, strong, lucid, manly: perhaps the most intensely concentrated prose ever written in English...
...fill. After Austerlitz, for instance, he made his misanthropic brother Louis King of Holland; Brother Joseph became King of Naples; Brother Jérôme became King of Westphalia; Sisters Elisa, Caroline and Pauline received various duchies in Italy; and Napoleon's widowed mother became Son Altesse Impériale Madame la Mère de l'Empereur. Napoleon gave them all immense allowances (which they all shrewdly kited into fortunes-Elisa by reopening the marble quarries at Carrara and flooding Europe with marble busts of the Emperor...
...himself up as landed gentry on an estate in New Jersey. The Bonapartes were a sexually agile lot, and by the time Napoleon III (son of Louis) became Emperor in 1852, it was necessary to distinguish between the legitimate and illegitimate Bonapartes by dividing them into the famille Impériale and the famille civile. The Emperor supported an immense number of them out of the privy purse and even allowed the women to retain the title of princess, although they were technically supposed to abandon it on marriage. One of the most persistent social embarrassments to the court...
Competition was appearing for Volkswagen on other fronts as well. Introduced in the U.S. last week was a pert new British auto, the Sunbeam Imp. Made by the Rootes group and powered by a rear-placed aluminum engine, it seats four and sells on the East Coast for $1,495, which is $100 less than the beetle-backed Volkswagen...