Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neumann, while alive to the contemporary parallels in the story of the third Napoleon, does not go out of his way to stress them. He is more concerned with the pernicious effects of an inherited legend upon a nice young man. Through Le Bas, the young Louis' Jacobin tutor, he dins it in that the boy had no chance to develop normally. All his life he was subjected to a forcing process, whether at home in Switzerland or at the Artillery School at Thun. Hortense, Louis' mother, was soaked in the Napoleonic idea. The daughter of Josephine...
...which may explain his interest in the art of achieving a dictatorship. When he refused to sign a declaration of obedience to the Third Reich, he lost his property, including his library. His troubles with Hitlerism are very probably behind the note of passionate conviction that crops out in Le Bas' speech to Louis at the close of Another Caesar. Says Le...
...Le C. des D. manages the greater part of French savings banks funds, La C. A. d'A. is a revolving fund for amortization of the national debt, and both are great stabilizing forces behind the price of rentes (Government bonds). At the art and science of such sanctified price rigging no practitioner is more dextrous than new Governor Tannery of the Bank of France. He is just the Governor for an ambitious young Premier who lunched with President Roosevelt last summer and came away favorably impressed...
...Stravinsky was pronounced a genius and he went on to write Le Sacre du Printemps, his historic harsh-rhythmed paean to fertility in the spring. In Paris the first-night audience shouted and hissed so loudly that the dancers were unable to hear the music. The white-faced Nijinsky beat time from the wings. A Londoner was so outraged that he wrote a letter to the Times calling Le Sacre "a threat against the foundations of our tonal institutions . . . [standing for] all the unnameable horrors of revolution, murder and rapine. ... It should have been dedicated to Dr. Crippen, the dentist...
...After Le Sacre not even his friends attempted to prophesy what Stravinsky would do next. But nothing could have surprised them so much as when he suddenly turned his back on vivid picture-music, announced a "return to Bach." Whether or not the placid Kapellmeister would have recognized Stravinsky as a colleague is a matter of grave dispute. Harsh critics say that Stravinsky changed his style because his rich ideas were spent. But modernists have continued to watch him closely, for even in his "classicism" his rules have been his own. He wrote Les Noces for percussion, pianos and chorus...