Word: marat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cheating at Games. An icy eye for the main chance and a fanatic's ambition were the talents Buonaparte brought to post-revolutionary France. "Can one be revolutionary enough? Marat and Robespierre, those are my saints!" he proclaimed at the Siege of Toulon. The sentiments gave him his general's epaulets at the age of 24. But witty young Victorine de Chastenay, with whom Napoleon played parlor games, was quick to see that "the republican general had no republican principles or beliefs...
...garbed in a grey overcoat and moccasins, argued that "one has to distinguish between political crime and terrorism. Terrorism, practiced to inspire fear, despises human life. The political killer demonstrates his respect for human life when he seeks, by killing, to avoid vast slaughter. Remember Charlotte Corday [who stabbed Marat in his bath]. All the French are proud of what...
...master poured out broadsheets of superb invective, streams of immortal poetry, completed his titanic Les Miserables, as well as other novels. By night he seduced the flower of Guernsey's chambermaids and, in table-tapping seances, had long discussions with "Moliere, Shakespeare, Anacreon, Dante, Racine, Marat, Charlotte Corday, Latude, Mahomet, Jesus Christ, Plato, Isaiah . . . the Dove of the Ark, Balaam's Ass." All these apparitions agreed that Hugo was acting for the best; many spoke in excellent Hugo-istic verse. Lord Byron, however, insisted on speaking English...
...coffee behind, and an enterprising Polish defender of Christendom hastened to beat his sword into a percolator by grabbing the coffee and opening the first of hundreds of Viennese coffeehouses. Charles II of England called coffeehouses "seminaries of sedition," and in France they were just that. Rousseau, Voltaire, Robespierre, Marat and Danton all frequented coffeehouses, and from one of them, the attack on the Bastille was launched. William Penn loved the stuff so that he paid $4.68 a Ib. for it. Upton Sinclair, on the other hand, hated coffee SO deeply that when Harry (Tramping on Life) Kemp was about...
Adams: Witness Marat, Robespierre...