Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...call itself "the Pompeii of Provence," is rich in Roman ruins and history. Founded by Julius Caesar in 49 B.C., Fréjus helped build the fleet Roman galleys that defeated Antony and Cleopatra in the battle of Actium in 31 B.C. It was at Fréjus that Napoleon made his triumphant return from Egypt in 1799, and it was a key beachhead when the Allies landed on France's southern shore in 1944. The golden CÓte d'Azur begins at Fréjus' beach, and this year the dry summer had brought...
...integration." Finally in October, just 300 years after Spain's Chief Minister Luis de Haro and Cardinal Mazarin of France met on a tiny neutral island in the little Bidassoa River to sign the Peace of the Pyrenees, the Foreign Ministers of the two nations met again. What Napoleon did in between was not mentioned. Said Castiella: "The day of complete friendship and loyalty between Europeans has come...
Malraux also decreed: let there be circuses-and staged the most dazzling Bastille Day celebration France had ever seen. In fact, never since Napoleon had government and culture so complemented each other. When Giraudoux's Electre opened, Paris critics were officially reminded that a French head of state has the privilege of seeing all new performances first; so, in "deference to General de Gaulle," the critics should hold up their first-night reviews until he could get to the theater on the second night. The grand opening of the opera fortnight ago, where Maria Callas had once complained...
...seen it rising above squat Moscow, Napoleon might have paused. For the 32-story Palace of Science, showpiece of Moscow State University, catches the visitor's eye* as the Eiffel Tower does in Paris. A relic of Stalin's appetite for Victorian skyscrapers, it comes off as just what he intended: the biggest wedding cake in the store window of Soviet education. Next year five U.S. professors will discover what such education means. Last week Columbia University began looking for volunteers to teach at Moscow University in the first formal professorial exchange between the two countries. What...
...such as, "Is this your lighter that I found under my pillow, or does it belong to Jacques?" While these two sip cognac in a fancy burlesque, "our two" gulp coffee at a sidewalk cafe. Both women call their lovers "Mon Petit." When one Mon Petit loses his duck, Napoleon, the other Mon Petit wonders why anyone would bother to put a string around a duckling's neck. This dichotomy arises often enough to keep continuity, it adds tart to the essentially sweet story, but it never becomes oppressive...