Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Howling Massacre. The last scene began with a tableau of Napoleon's Grande Armée struggling in the snow. Then came a band of howling partisan-patriots to massacre the exhausted invaders...
...worth employing." There were four job offers in no time, but before accepting any, the police advised the major to drop in at the local station for a little chat. "They tell me I can be jailed [possibly for six months]," said the major, as if remembering that Napoleon, too, had written his memoirs in captivity. "It was my last-ever flight," he said. "I meant it as a spectacular swansong...
...daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general." Even before he died in 1944, Erwin Rommel had achieved legendary status among his Anglo-Saxon foes. By now he has a safe niche among those defeated military commanders-Lee and Napoleon are outstanding examples-who rise at least equal to their conquerors in the esteem of the military experts. Brigadier Desmond Young's biography, Rommel, the Desert Fox, sold 300,000 copies in Britain and the U.S., and the movie version, while raising the tempers of those who could...
...Casmurro's real name is Bento, and he does not start out a sourpuss. At the age of 15, Bento's head is full of great but nebulous expectations: "After Napoleon, lieutenant and emperor, all destinies are possible in this century." His heart throbs for Capitu, a dark-haired Juliet with "eyes like the tide when the undertow is strong." Bento's mother had dedicated him to the church at birth, but the seminary is not for Bento. He wins his release along with a seminarist friend named Ezekiel, and goes off to law school. Then...
...always slept soundly; even when many anxieties were on his mind, his snores resounded "like coal going down a chute." Though his joints cracked like muskets when he did his one-legged heave-ups, he was determined to outlive any other man of his generation and be a second Napoleon. Not that he approved entirely of Napoleon. Bonaparte, he used to say, "filled himself full of onion soup and brandy before the battle of Waterloo. That fixed him for keeps...